A respected country attracts investment, agreements and a voice in major decisions. Brazil chaired the G20 in 2024, when it launched the Global Alliance against Hunger, and hosted COP30 in Belém in 2025. In 2020, Bolsonaro's foreign minister said: “let us be that pariah”.
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- De ‘comunavírus’ a pária internacional; veja polêmicas de Ernesto à frente do ItamaratySummarizes the controversies that isolated Brazil and led to the minister's fall.Read the story
- "Que sejamos pária", afirma Ernesto Araújo sobre o papel do Brasil no mundoThe foreign minister publicly accepted Brazil being seen as an international pariah.Read the story
- Araújo: Se falar em liberdade nos faz pária internacional, que sejamos esse páriaRecords Araújo's remark at the diplomats' graduation.Read the story
Sources
Where the data on this page comes from.
- Agência Brasil
G20 Leaders' Summit in Rio under Brazil's presidency, 2024.
- Agência Brasil
Report of COP30, held in Belém in November 2025.
- Correio Braziliense
In 2020, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo said: “let us be that pariah”.