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Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is surrounded by the press and supporters as he leaves the Supreme Labor Court in Brasilia, Brazil, on Tuesday
BRAZIL’S president-elect Jair Bolsonaro named a man as right-wing as himself today to be the country’s next foreign minister when he takes office on January 1 next year.
Mr Bolsonaro announced on Twitter that the career diplomat Ernesto Araujo will lead the country’s foreign affairs, tweeting that he has been “a diplomat for 29 years and a brilliant intellectual.”
He wrote: “Brazilian foreign policy must be part of the moment of regeneration that Brazil is experiencing today.”
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