Julio Glinternick Bitelli knows Argentina well.
His promotion thesis in the Brazilian diplomatic service was about this country, where he was twice on mission.
Now, Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira has chosen him as ambassador of the Federative Republic of Brazil to Argentina.
This is how Clarín
was able to find out
from local official sources after days of secrecy and from the Brazilian inmate herself around who will command the Brazilian embassy in Buenos Aires.
In that internship, the experienced Vieira won, who, in addition to being Bitelli's boss - as he is known here - when he was ambassador in the previous governments of Lula da Silva here, summoned him to Brasilia as his chief of staff in Itamaraty.
It is that Vieira had a period as chancellor of Dilma Rousseff (2015-2016)
Julio Glinternick Bitelli, appointed ambassador of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Argentina
Rousseff herself sounded like a possible ambassador here.
Also the diplomat Gisela Padovan and the ambassador Antonio Simoes.
But the chosen one was Bitelli and his style placet that enables him to serve as Ambassador here has already been requested.
Clarín does not know if he was granted but it is only a matter of hours.
The embassy in Buenos Aires, at Cerrito 1350, which includes his residence located in the imposing Palacio Pereda
, is one of the most important for Brazil abroad.
Lula, like Vieira, is also choosing a diplomat who
will be able to lead the embassy beyond the presidential elections in Argentina in 2023.
In this case, this newspaper knows that in the government of Lula da Silva they are already contemplating a different political scenario in Argentina by the end of 2023, in which the opposition can win - it is one of several possibilities - and in this way only months of bilateral relations with this version of the Frente de Todos.
Lula himself made an allusion this Monday to the Argentine future.
He did it in his conference together with Alberto Fernández and he did it in the same Brazilian key as what the government of Jair Bolsonaro meant for the PT.
"The only thing I hope is that Argentina does not allow the extreme right to win the elections. It is what I want because the extreme right did not work in any country that it governed. Therefore, I hope that the Argentine people in their intelligence do not allow a disaster here in Argentina electoral level, is what I believe”.
Bitelli will replace Bolsonaro's outgoing ambassador to Argentina, fellow diplomat Reynaldo Salgado.
The respect for the institutionality in Itamaraty was notable this Monday, something that is not so frequent in the Casa Rosada and the Palacio San Martín.
It happens that being Bolsonaro's ambassador, Salgado was included in the same way in the bilateral between Alberto Fernández and Lula da Silva, with the respective foreign ministers and economy ministers.
Daniel Scioli was there and Salgado must have been there, who never wanted to have any relationship with the press, and at the same time had a very hermetic mission.
Bitelli's biographical, academic and professional data published on the Internet can be synthesized like this.
He was born in Santo André, São Paulo, in 1960. He has a degree in Law.
He studied High Studies at the Rio Branco Institute.
Thesis: "Argentina, Brazil and the reform of the Security Council of the United Nations: beacon of the strategic association or trench of a waning rivalry?"
He was the third, second and first secretary of the Embassy.
He also minister of second and first class.
He will surely now be promoted to ambassador.
He had several positions within Brazil, and as stated, he was Chief of Staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of former and current Foreign Minister Vieira (2015-2016). Abroad he was at the Embassy in Quito, at the United Nations in New York, in Montevideo , in Washington, in Buenos Aires, twice, in La Paz;
he was already ambassador in Tunisia and Colombia among other positions.
And he has a dozen medals and orders of honor delivered in Brazil and abroad.
Among them is the order of the Liberator San Martín, granted in 1998.
His published works include a book on Brazilian Policy for Africa and the Decolonization of Portuguese Territories, in Essays on Diplomatic History, FUNAG (1989) He has three daughters with Mrs. Lizy Mahlmann Bitelli
