#State Department

The official portrait of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, released by the State Department in January 2025. Rubio is leading the talks with Caracas.

Washington is negotiating a status of forces agreement that could keep US troops in Venezuela long term

President Donald Trump and Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the Oval Office in May 2026, in a photograph Trump posted on Truth Social.

Congressional oversight

Twenty-five House Democrats press Rubio on how Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro got a US visa after leaving under a court order

Jorge Messias at his swearing-in as head of Brazil's Advocacia-Geral da União, at the Planalto Palace in Brasília, in January 2023.

Brazil and the United States

Brazil asks its federal police to investigate a $1 million U.S. State Department grant aimed at critics of its Supreme Court

Kehinde Wiley at the State Department in Washington on January 21, 2015, the day he received the department's Medal of Arts.

Art in Embassies

Kehinde Wiley asks Trump to sell him back the painting pulled from the US embassy in Santo Domingo

The sign outside the Harry S Truman Building, the State Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., in December 2025.

Brazilians are among the 43,000 immigrant visa refusals the United States now has to reopen