Cape Verde with new ambassadors in Brazil and the USA

The President of the Republic of Cape Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, appointed new ambassadors to the country in the United States of America (USA) and Brazil, both outside the diplomatic staff.

According to Lusa, in the information released today, the head of state says that he signed a presidential decree appointing, at the proposal of the Government, the new ambassadors in Brasília, José Pedro Chantre Oliveira, and in Washington, José Luís Livramento, “after” agrément” of the governments of the two countries”.

José Pedro Chantre Oliveira, businessman, and José Luís Livramento, until recently chairman of the board of directors of the public company CV Telecom, are not part of the diplomatic staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Communities (MNEC), updated in August and passed to have 17 career ambassadors, with the reclassification of categories, compared to the previous six, says the news advanced by Lusa.

In the US lives the largest Cape Verdean community in the diaspora, estimated at more than 250,000 people. The post of Cape Verde's ambassador in Washington was assumed until January 31 by former Prime Minister Carlos Veiga, also by political appointment, and who has already assumed the possibility of running for the 2021 Cape Verdean presidential elections.

In Brazil, the former ambassador, in this case of career, Domingos Mascarenhas, was exonerated from his post in March 2019.

According to the same source, Francisco Tavares, former mayor of Santa Catarina, Santiago Island, was appointed ambassador of Cape Verde in Nigeria in July.

Francisco Fernando Tavares was mayor of Santa Catarina for two terms, until 2016, elected by the Movement for Democracy (MpD, ruling party), having been appointed to hold the position of ambassador of Cape Verde in Nigeria, on a service commission, by the President of the Republic, also “under the proposal of the Government”, as follows from the law referred to by Lusa.