(9 Apr 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro – 8 April 2025
1. Plane passing by the statue of Christ the Redeemer
2. Sugar Loaf cable car
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexus Jackson, 29 years old, US tourist:
“It wouldn’t change my travel plans. I’d say that just because I’ve been to Brazil, and I enjoyed the city (Rio) so much, I’d pay the extra for the visa to come here. But if took a long time to get it and my travel plans could not be changed, that may hinder me to change my travel plans.”
4. Cristiane Borges guiding a group of tourists
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Cristiane Borges, 40 years old, tourist guide:
“It will probably reduce the amount of people in the city. Some people end up not coming (because of the visa). But it’s not all that bad because we also need visas to go to some countries.”
6. Various of Copacabana beach
STORYLINE:
Brazil will reintroduce visa requirements Thursday for U.S., Canadian and Australian citizens, a move that ends the country’s open entry for people of those nationalities after six years.
The United States Embassy in Brasilia said Monday that Americans will still be able to request visas electronically if they visit from April 10 onward.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, scrapped the visa requirements in a 2019 decree as he sought to boost the country’s tourism industry.
That went against the South American country’s tradition of requiring visas from travellers based on the principle of reciprocity and equal treatment.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva suspended the free entry of Americans, Canadians and Australians in March of 2023, shortly after he defeated Bolsonaro. The leftist leader said then it was based on the principle of reciprocity as Brazilians still need visas for those countries.
Brazil’s Senate approved a bill earlier this year to keep the visa exemption for the three countries, but the mood changed in the lower house after Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Brazilian goods last week. Allies of Speaker Hugo Motta have said the bill will not come to a final vote any time soon.
Last week, Brazil’s Congress swiftly passed a reciprocity bill so the country’s executive has leeway to impose retaliation tariffs on countries that impose barriers to Brazilian goods. The bill is yet to be sanctioned by Lula.
AP Video shot by Mario Lobão
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