Bolsonaro’s office releases Biden letter on climate, pandemic

President Joe Biden said his government is willing to work closely with Brazil on a new chapter in bilateral relations.

US President Joe Biden wrote to Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro last month, outlining opportunities to work together on the pandemic and the environment before the United Nations COP26 climate conference, the Brazilian president’s office said on Thursday. In the February 26 letter, which was confirmed by a US official, Biden said his government is willing to work closely with Brazil on a new chapter in bilateral relations, adding that there were no limits on what the nations could achieve together, according to the Brazilian president’s office. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment about why it waited three weeks to release the letter, which came a day after Bolsonaro’s nemesis, left-wing ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, used a high-profile CNN interview to call for Biden for help in securing vaccines to end Brazil’s raging coronavirus outbreak.