Brazil's new president, with major changes in foreign policy

Brazil's newly elected president, simultaneously extreme representative Jair Bolsonaro, said there was no point that made him maintain diplomatic relations with Cuba, as it violates human rights, so no business should be done with the Communist-led island.

In an interview published Friday by the newspaper Correio Brazilense, Bolsonaro criticised the Mais Medicos (Mor Doctors), through which 11,420 Cuban doctors work in the poor or remote parts of Brazil.

He said that 75 percent of doctor's wages have been paid to the government of Cuba, yet the children of doctors were not allowed to join them in Brazil, citing a doctor whose three children are still staying in Cuba.

This is just torture for a mother. Can we maintain diplomatic relations with a country that treats its people this way?”, Brazil's newly elected president said.

Bolsonaro said the programme, launched by former left-wing President Dilma Roussef to provide medical care in areas where Brazilian doctors did not want to serve, may continue, but Cuban doctors must take their full salary and have their children with them.

Bolsonaro, who was elected last week, takes office on January 1st and has promised the biggest change in Brazilian foreign policy in decades.

He will seek closer relations with the United States and confirmed Thursday that he plans to follow President Donald Trump's decision and take Brazil's embassy to Israel to Jerusalem.