Ambassador Raul de Taunay

Greetings from the Ambassador

It is with deepest pleasure that I welcome you to the website of the Brazilian Embassy in Harare. Be sure that your electronic visit to our home page represents one of the many outstanding moments of association between Brazilians and Zimbabweans.

Brazilians are used to receiving Zimbabweans with feast in their hearts, because we feel close to you and more than this, we are friends.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accorded me the honour to represent Brazil in the Republic of Zimbabwe and this important task culminates my career with the pleasure of being among friends. I can say that with sincerity, evoking the lineage of African ancestors that contribute to the generation of what Brazil is today.

Brazil today is a country that is changing for the better.

Approximately 200 million Brazilians today are overcoming important challenges and facing major transformations in almost all the fields of human activity.

In the Information Age, we stand as leaders in Bank Automation, Information Technologies for aircraft manufacturing and offshore oil drilling.

In the fields of telecommunications and satellite industry we are also among the world leaders. Submarine cables and underground fiber optics networks span throughout our territory assuring that growing demand for high- speed Internet. Other services are available in all our cities and help all our neighbours to integrate in the cosmopolitan space of Mercosul.

In the field of researching, producing and consuming fossil and bio-fuels, it is important to remember that Brazil is today self-sufficient. With our Alcohol Programs, we have created more than 6 million direct and indirect jobs, including jobs for small farmers in economically depressed areas. All petrol consumed in Brazil today contains 25 percent of ethanol.

More than 85 percent of the millions of cars currently being manufactured in Brazil are Flex-Fuel, meaning they can run on either petrol or ethanol and any mix of the two.

Our bio -fuels programs have been accompanied by government actions in defense of biodiversity. Along with the use of land for sustainable harvesting, measures have allowed the rate of deforestation and therefore emissions of greenhouse gases- to fall by more than 50 percent in the last three years.

Dear visitor,

It is with humility, but with pride, that I state that Brazil is a country with a peace-loving trajectory. Our battles were always fought in the diplomatic field, observing the rule of law, the state of right and respecting the soverigninty of our neighbours.

We  stand today as a tenacious population that consolidated democracy not only by direct of Respect towards our fellowmen and by the solidity of the institutions we were able to edify.

We are also simple people, fraternal people, seeking to be fair, to be worthy and to overcome our inequalities. A nation with the most vivid spirituality, melted in blood and spirit. Given what Brazil represents for the regional stability in South America, we feel encouraged to continue advocating for changes that will take us all to a state of well-being and of concord. It will be these changes, amidst a climate of harmony and trust, which will be the deciding factor for our common success.

Dear guest,

Brazil looks forward to implementing new projects with Zimbabwe, to enlarge the spectrum of our cooperation, to examine new opportunities for our bilateral relations.

We are conscious that forming a strong basis support of our relations is a long term challenge. In the mastering of this tangible dialogue, we are proud of our mutual human identity, our mutual political loyalty, our mutual belief that we can and we will structure a new pattern of collaboration which will benefit the future generations of Zimbabweans and Brazilians.

Dear friend,

Millions of afro-descendant Brazilian citizens  spread the feeling of Africa in all four corners of Brazil, as well as thousands of Brazilians living in the this blessed continent of Africa share their love for friendship, cooperation and culture. Culture in Brazil has many Afro-Brazilian combinations, such as music and rhythm. These in Brazil have many names: Samba, Bossa Nova, Maxine, Xaxado, Baiao, Choro, Carimbo, Frevo, Forro, Marcha, Embolada and others, that make huge crowds explode with joy during the weeks of the carnival, integrating the schools of Sambas, the Trio Electricos, The Bumba-meu-bois, the Maracatus, the Cavalhadas, the Candomble, the Capoeira and all sorts of feasts and tournaments, in a mixture of good vibrations that make our imagination fly.

Let us then imagine the best for Zimbabwe and the best for Brazil. Both countries being fantastic territories for substance and of spirit will surprise us with the role that they have to play in this new century that is only beginning.

Have a nice visit to our website and feel free to consult our staff at the Embassy for advice or contacts in matters concerning trade and business developments, scientific and technical collaboration, cultural and educational cooperation, tourism and consular services (visas).

Our aim is to provide efficient treatment to all our visitors.

May God bless Zimbabwe, may God bless Brazil, and may God bless us all.

Raul de Taunay
Ambassador