Brazil Revokes US Adviser Visa Over Bolsonaro Visit

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced on Friday that his government had revoked the visa of Darren Beattie, a senior adviser in the United States State Department focused on Brazil policy, barring him from entering the country. The decision came after Brazilian authorities denied Beattie's request to visit former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is imprisoned in Brasilia, and followed reports that Beattie had misrepresented the purpose of his trip in his visa application.

Lula made the announcement during an event at a trauma center in Rio de Janeiro, framing the action as a reciprocal step in response to the United States' denial of visas to Brazilian officials last year, including Health Minister Alexandre Padilha and his family. "That American guy who said he was coming here to visit Bolsonaro, he's been barred from visiting and I have forbidden him from coming to Brazil so long as they don't free up the visa of my health minister, which has been blocked," Lula said. A Brazilian diplomatic official, speaking anonymously, confirmed to news agencies that the visa revocation stemmed from omissions and inaccuracies about the visit's intent, which had been approved...