Despite receiving the visa on Thursday to enter the United States, Health Minister Alexandre Padilha will have his circulation in the city of New York Limited, if he decides to accompany President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the UN General Assembly next week. The restrictions are severe of those who are often imposed on representatives of countries such as Syria, Russia and Cuba.
According to government interlocutors, Padilha will be able to move in an area equivalent to up to five blocks where he is hosted and should follow the routes between the hotel, the UN headquarters and representations of Brazil linked to the body. Diplomats from countries such as Cuba, Russia and Syria are often limited to a 40 -kilometer radius from Manhattan Island, more precisely from Columbus Circle, a roundabout in a busy area of the city.
According to the US State Department, “the imposition of such restrictions is unusual.” On a US government website there is a list of countries whose representatives may be targets of these limitations, which also include Eritreia, Venezuela, North Korea and Iran. Other restrictions may also be imposed.
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In the 2024 edition of the report of the Host Country Relations Committee, a UN document that brings together complaints and recommendations on US performance as a general meeting, Russia representatives, Syria, Cuba criticized the restriction of 25 miles, equivalent to 40 kilometers. The report concerns the government of Democrat Joe Biden.
“The Cuba representative stated that the imposition by the country host of travel restriction within 25 miles of columbus circle to members of certain permanent missions was discriminatory … He noted that this issue had been repeatedly raised on the committee,” says an excerpt from the report.
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Padilha was the last of the entourage to receive visa to enter the US, reported government interlocutors to the globe. Last month, the US government canceled the US and Padilha’s daughter’s US and daughter. Servers who had participated in the Mais Médicos program, created in 2013, in the administration of former President Dilma Rousseff, were also hit by the measure. According to the White House, Cuban doctors working in Brazil for the program were targets of slave labor exploration.
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The Minister of Health had been overcome since 2024. Last August 18 he requested the renewal of the document. Asked by journalists about the reason for the delay for US authorities to renew the document, Padilha replied that he was “not there.”
“This business business is equal to that song, ‘I don’t care’. You’re more concerned about the visa than me. I don’t care. I think it’s just worried about the visa who wants to go to the United States. I don’t want to go to the United States. Just worried about the visa who wants to leave Brazil, or who wants to go there to do lobby of homeland, as some are doing. Bolsonaro (PL-SP), son of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
