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| Alfredo Nascimento | |
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| Congressman of Brazil | |
| Assumed office February 1, 2015 | |
| Ministry of Transport of Brazil | |
| In office March 15, 2004 –July 6, 2011 | |
| President | Lula da Silva in both mandates and Dilma Rouseff until July 6, 2011 |
| Preceded by | Anderson Adauto Pereira |
| Succeeded by | Paulo Sérgio Passos |
| Mayor of Manaus | |
| In office January 1, 1997 –March 11, 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Eduardo Braga |
| Succeeded by | Luis Alberto Carijó |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 5, 1952 Martins, Rio Grande do Norte |
| Political party | Party of the Republic |
| Spouse(s) | Francisca Leonia de Morais Pereira |
| Profession | Politician and entrepreneur |
Alfredo Nascimento (born May 5, 1952) is Brazil's minister of Transport. [1] [2] He is a member of the Republic Party, [3] and was the party's president until he resigned in 2016 in support of the Impeachment process against Dilma Rousseff. [4] He has occasionally been at odds with environmental minister Carlos Minc over projects in Amazonas and Rondônia. [5] Nascimento was mayor of Manaus in the year 1988 and between 1997 until 2004, when he resigned to take over the Ministry of Transport of Brazil
Carlos Minc Baumfeld is a Brazilian geographer, professor, environmentalist, politician and Minister of Environment in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's second term as president of Brazil.
Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the 9th largest country subdivision in the world, and is greater than the areas of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile combined. Mostly located in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the third largest country subdivision in the Southern Hemisphere after the Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland. It would be the sixteenth largest country in land area, slightly larger than Mongolia. It is larger than the whole of the Northeast Region of Brazil with its nine states. Amazonas is roughly 90% the size of the U.S. state of Alaska and is equivalent to 2.25 times the area of Texas.
Rondônia is a state in Brazil, located in the northern part of the country. To the west is a short border with the state of Acre, to the north is the state of Amazonas, in the east is Mato Grosso, and in the south and southwest is Bolivia. Its capital is Porto Velho. The state was named after Cândido Rondon.
