1. Abraham Braganca de Vasconcellos Weintraub was born on 11 October 1971 and is a Brazilian economist and investment banker who served as Brazil's Minister of Education under Jair Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2020.
15 Facts About Abraham Weintraub
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Abraham Weintraub served as the Executive Director for the World Bank from the 15th district from 2020 to 2022, when he resigned his post in order to run in the 2022 Sao Paulo gubernatorial election.
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Abraham Weintraub is a professor at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Master in Administration in Finance for Getulio Vargas Foundation, and graduated in Economic Sciences at the University of Sao Paulo in 1994.
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Abraham Weintraub was a member of the transition team of the government of President Bolsonaro, and was Secretary-Executive of the Chief of Staff Onyx Lorenzoni.
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Abraham Weintraub became a member of Bolsonaro's transition cabinet in November 2018.
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Abraham Weintraub is close to Onyx Lorenzoni, the current Chief of Staff whom he previously served as Executive-Secretary.
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On 18 June 2020, after 14 months in office, Abraham Weintraub announced his resignation from the Ministry in a video with Bolsonaro posted on social media.
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Abraham Weintraub had been criticized for issuing statements deemed controversial, as well as for mismanagement.
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In July 2020, Abraham Weintraub was elected as an executive director of the World Bank for a term ending on 31 October 2020.
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Abraham Weintraub resigned in 30 April 2022 in order to run in the 2022 Sao Paulo gubernatorial election.
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On 4 April 2020, Abraham Weintraub tweeted an anti-Chinese slur, insinuating that China was responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and that it was part of its "plan for world domination".
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Abraham Weintraub later claimed that it was not a racial statement but an ideological statement due to his anti-communism.
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In November 2019, during an interview with Jornal da Cidade, Abraham Weintraub accused federal universities of cultivating cannabis and preparing methamphetamine in chemistry labs, but did not present any evidence to support his claims:.
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Abraham Weintraub said that FARC, a Colombia guerilla movement, had been invited as honored guests to the Foro de Sao Paulo, an annual gathering of Latin American leftist parties.
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In 2019, Brazil's Ministry of Education asked the Portuguese Wikipedia to delete the page for Abraham Weintraub and threatened legal action.