Elon Musk to meet with Brazil’s Bolsonaro, says report

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and business magnate Elon Musk are scheduled to satisfy in Sao Paulo on Friday, Brazilian day by day O Globo claimed late Thursday.

The two will talk about a prospective partnership on rural connectivity and deforestation checking, according to O Globo.

The assembly follows a meeting of the SpaceX and Tesla main government with Brazilian Communications Minister Fabio Faria in November in Austin, Texas. The two spoke about using SpaceX technological know-how to deliver world-wide-web to rural schools and slash back again on unlawful deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

According to the O Globo report, the Friday meeting will happen in an upscale lodge in the vicinity of the city of Sorocaba in Sao Paulo point out and will be attended by quite a few organization executives, together with Telecom Italia Chief Govt Pietro Labriola and the chairman of Brazilian lender Banco BTG Pactual, Andre Esteves.

Musk will satisfy Brazil’s much-suitable president just times immediately after he claimed on Twitter he could no for a longer period assist Democrats “and will vote Republican.”

Bolsonaro, who celebrated Twitter’s announcement of its acceptance of Musk’s original bid for the company, has been striving for many years to lure Tesla to Brazil.

In 2020, his son, congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, reported he had satisfied with the previous demand d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Brasilia, William Popp, to examine a plan to draw in the automaker to build a manufacturing facility in the place. Quickly just after, Bolsonaro mentioned a wish to stop by a Tesla plant on a stop by to the U.S.

(Reporting by Peter Frontini Editing by Bradley Perrett)