Brazil: new chief diplomat wants to

The new Brazilian Foreign Minister, Ernesto Araujo, said on Wednesday he intends to fight for "reversing globalization" and "liberating foreign policy" from Brazil.

The head of diplomacy of the new far-right president Jair Bolsonaro presented his vision in his first speech after taking office, delivered in front of several hundred people at the Itamaraty Palace, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brasilia.

"We will fight to reverse globalization and push it back to its starting point," Araujo said.

"For a long time," he said, "Brazil was saying what it was supposed to say, we wanted to be the good student of globalization and we thought that was all, we were an inferior country."

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