Bolivian Fugitive’s Flight Topples Brazil’s Foreign Minister
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff replaced her foreign minister after a diplomat acknowledged helping an outspoken opponent of Bolivia’s president flee the country, where he’s wanted on corruption charges, following a 13-month standoff.
Antonio Patriota, a career diplomat, resigned after a meeting with Rousseff to discuss the incident, which has strained relations between Latin America’s largest economy and one of the region’s poorest nations. He was replaced by Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, who is currently Brazil’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York.