{"id":23747,"date":"2026-07-27T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/brazil-denies-visas-to-two-us-state-department-officials\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:25:08","slug":"brazil-denies-visas-to-two-us-state-department-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/brazil-denies-visas-to-two-us-state-department-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil denies visas to two US State Department officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Brazilian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had denied visas to two US State Department officials who sought to travel to the South American nation next week.<\/p>\n<p>A US State Department spokesperson said Assistant Secretary Riley M. Barnes from the State Department&rsquo;s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and Samuel Samson, a deputy assistant secretary, would visit Bras&iacute;lia from July 27 to July 30 to meet with government officials, religious leaders and civil society representatives to discuss election integrity, religious freedom and freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>However, Brazil rejected the visa applications of the two US officials, accusing them of planning to impugn the fairness and integrity of Brazil&rsquo;s electoral system ahead of its presidential election this fall.<\/p>\n<p>(With input from Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Brazil denies visas to two US State Department officials<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had denied visas to two US State Department officials who sought to travel to the South American nation next week. A US State Department spokesperson said Assistant Secretary Riley M. Barnes from the State Department&rsquo;s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and Samuel Samson, a deputy assistant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/brazil-denies-visas-to-two-us-state-department-officials\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Brazil denies visas to two US State Department officials&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}