Mrs. Cristina Bea and her daughter, Mary Diane Bea, a first-time voter, hand-carried their ballots to the Philippine Embassy in Brazil on 13 April 2019, the kick-off of the election period for Overseas Absentee Voting. Their ballots were the first ones received by the Embassy which is conducting Postal Voting for this year’s National and Local Elections.

As part of its mandate to deliver outreach services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction, the Philippine Embassy in Brazil provided consular services to Filipinos in Florianópolis, the capital of southern Brazil’s Santa Catarina state.

H.E. Ambassador Marcia Donner Abreu (center, front row), Secretary for Communications and Culture of the Ministry of External Relations of Brazil was guest speaker during the AOG working luncheon hosted by Ambassador Mauro (fifth from left).

Brazil’s foreign policy directions under the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro was the main topic discussed during the working lunch hosted by Ambassador Marichu Mauro of the Philippines for the Asia-Oceania Group (AOG) of Ambassadors on 20 March 2019 at Royal Tulip Hotel.

Participants of the first ever Sub-Regional Consultation Meeting for Latin America (from left): Mr. Emmanuel Garcia (Buenos Aires PE), Commercial Counsellor Vichael Angelo Roaring (Mexico PE), Ambassador Linglingay Lacanlale (Buenos Aires PE), Ambassador Marichu Mauro (Brasilia PE), Charge d’Affaires Marcos A.S. Punsalang (Santiago PE), and Consul Maria Carmela Theresa Cabreira (Mexico PE).

Philippine Foreign Service Posts (FSPs) in Latin America (LatAm) gathered together in Brazil to discuss ideas and projects of mutual interest on 15 March 2019 at the Philippine Embassy in Brasilia.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: As part of its mandate to deliver outreach services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction, the Philippine Embassy in Brazil provided consular services to Filipinos in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, 17 March 2019 at the aptly named South American Copacabana Hotel in the famed Copacabana area of Rio. 

Processing the passport applications of the littlest of Filipinos.

PARAMARIBO, SURINAME: More than a hundred Filipinos availed of consular services during the Philippine Embassy in Brasilia’s Consular Outreach Mission in Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. 

A total of 115 passport applications was processed during the two-day consular service which was held on 23-24 February 2019 at Queens Hotel in Paramaribo. Twenty-six (26) applications for authentication services and five (5) civil registrations were also processed.

PORTO ALEGRE: The Philippine Embassy in Brasilia conducted its first consular outreach for 2019 in Porto Alegre on 3 February. Porto Alegre is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil.

A total of 20 consular services was rendered during the Consular Outreach, all of them passport renewals.

The Embassy regularly conducts outreach missions to provide consular services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction. The Embassy intends to hold more consular outreach missions this year in order to reach more Filipinos in the areas of its jurisdiction.

As part of its Gender and Development (GAD) Program, the Philippine Embassy in Brasilia, in partnership with ABAC Luz - Associação Brasiliense de Apoio Ao Paciente com Câncer (Brazilian Association for Supporting Patients with Cancer), held a talk on Breast Cancer Prevention for the Filipino community in Brasilia on 9 December 2018 at the Chancery. Dr. Lucy Ishii of ABAC Luz was the resource speaker. She also provided free breast screening to the attendees.

After a traditional Filipino lunch, the attendees were treated to a screening of Bamboo Flowers, a film by the late Maryo J. de los Reyes.