In a speech to the UN on Tuesday, President Jair Bolsonaro recommended that a minister in Ernesto Geisel’s military government be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is Alysson Paulinelli, who was Minister of Agriculture from 1974 to 1979 and was responsible for modernizing Embrapa. He is still referred to as the “father of modern Brazilian agriculture” by representatives of the countryside and even had the support of a minister in the Lula government.
“Here, I pay my respects to Alysson Paulinelli, Brazilian nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, for her role in expanding Brazilian agricultural borders through the use of new technologies,” Bolsonaro said. said. “This year Brazil has already begun harvesting the largest grain crop in our history,” he said. Bolsonaro used the name of the minister of the dictatorial regime to praise the expansion of national agricultural production.
As soon as the Nobel Prize campaign was launched in 2021, Paolinelli received more than 100 letters from representatives of supporting institutions from 28 countries. The honoree, whose name was announced in 2021, even had the support of former Agriculture Minister Roberto Rodrigues, who held the portfolio in the government of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
After the end of the dictatorship, Paolinello was elected federal deputy during the Constituent Assembly. In 2006 he won the World Food Prize, a kind of food Nobel.
source: Noticias
