Health Minister Alexandre Padilha classified as “cowardly act” The cancellation of the visas of his wife and daughter for the United States. The minister has been overcome since 2024, so he is not able to cancel.
According to Padilha, he learned of the sanction from a message sent by his wife, as the minister fulfills today (15) schedule of commitments in Pernambuco.
Paddle questions the fact that Trump’s government has been sanctioned to his 10 -year -old daughter, and criticizes Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is living in the United States. Eduardo have articulated with members of the US government sanctions on Brazil, as a way to press the country, especially the Supreme Federal Court (STF), so that his father is not tried for attempted coup.
“People who do this and the Bolsonaro clan, who orchestrates this, have to explain. Not for me, not only to Brazil, but to the whole world: what is the risk of a 10-year-old child to have for the US government?” GloboNews.
“I’m absolutely outraged. It’s a cowardice attitude,” he added.
Padilha also stated that the Bolsonaro’s son and allies set up “a real betrayal firm in the United States.”
This week, the United States State Department revoked the visas of Brazilian government officials linked to the implementation of the Mais Médicos Program. The visas of Mozart Julio Tabosa Sales, Specialized Secretary of Health Care of the Ministry of Health, and Alberto Kleiman, former advisor to International Relations of the portfolio and current general coordinator for 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change 2025 (COP30).
In a statement, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, justifies that the Servers would have contributed to a “forced labor export scheme of the Cuban regime” through Mais Médicos.
Padilha was Minister of Health when the more doctors was createdin the government of former President Dilma Rousseff, in 2013. The program serves remote and scarcity regions of these professionals. From 2013 to 2018, Cuban doctors participated in the program through cooperation with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
“My daughter had not even been born when I raised the Mais Médicos program with great pride. I created it very proudly,” he said.
The minister said that There is currently no partnership in Brazil with Cuban doctors. However, other countries maintain partnerships with these professionals and cited Italy, noting that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is Trump’s ally.
“What is the explanation for not having any sanction, any criticism of these other countries [que continuam com a parceria com os médicos cubanos]. Come a sanction here in Brazil against Brazilian servants, against the family of the Minister of Health, against a 10 -year -old child, and we have no partnership with Cuban doctors, “Padilha asked.
