Veteran politician José Serra has sought to forge new links with Argentina shortly after he was appointed foreign minister by Brazil’s interim president Michel Temer. He has announced a shift in foreign policy. But José Serra is not a diplomat and he is bound to be an unconventional foreign minister. He had hardly received his ministerial credentials before he started issuing strong-worded communiqués against left-wing Latin American governments (and the Organization of American States) that criticized the outcome of the impeachment crisis in Brazil, which resulted in the change of government. For a start, Serra’s visit this week to Argentina shows that he intends to work closely with the Macri administration. “We share similar references towards the reorganization of politics […]