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Luiz Alberto Figueiredo

Brazilian diplomat and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 24, 2025
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Luiz Alberto Figueiredo Machado is a diplomat who is currently serving as the Brazilian Ambassador for Climate Change since February 2023. He was the former Minister of External Relations, having succeeded Antonio Patriota and was succeeded by Mauro Vieira. Figueiredo took office as foreign minister on August 28, 2013., and left office on December 31, 2014.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Luiz Alberto Figueiredo” as brazilian diplomat and politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Luiz, Alberto and Figueiredo can be independently traced.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 24, 2025. The first chronological checks are 2023, 2013 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Luiz Alberto Figueiredo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.