Brazil's Federal Police, known by its Portuguese initials PF, has appointed delegate Tatiana Alves Torres as its new liaison officer to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Miami, replacing Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho after U.S. authorities ordered him to leave the country. The reshuffle follows a dispute linked to the detention of former federal congressman Alexandre Ramagem.
According to single-source reporting from Metrópoles, PF director-general Andrei Rodrigues selected Tatiana to represent the agency in the United States for a two-year term. In that role, she is expected to coordinate information-sharing between Brazilian and U.S. authorities and support joint investigations.
New Appointment
Metrópoles reported that Tatiana is a career federal police officer who joined the force in 2002. She previously served as PF superintendent in Minas Gerais state and, since December last year, had held a senior management post in the agency's personnel division.
The report said the change had already been agreed internally by PF leadership more than a month ago, suggesting the transition was not improvised after the diplomatic clash became public. Still, the timing makes the appointment politically sensitive, because it comes immediately after Washington publicly confirmed the removal of her predecessor.
Why the Previous Officer Left
Tatiana will take over the position previously held by Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho, who had been involved in the detention of Ramagem. Ramagem is a former congressman and former chief of Brazil's intelligence agency under ex-president Jair Bolsonaro. The Metrópoles report did not detail the legal basis of the detention in this story, but said Ivo's role in that episode became central to the U.S. response.
On April 20, the X account of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs said the Brazilian official had been asked to leave the country. In the statement quoted by Metrópoles, the department said no foreign national could manipulate the U.S. immigration system to bypass formal extradition requests or extend what it described as political witch hunts on U.S. territory.
"No foreign national can manipulate our immigration system to circumvent both formal extradition requests and prolong political witch hunts on U.S. soil," the State Department office said, according to Metrópoles.
That language signaled that Washington saw the case as more than a routine law-enforcement matter. It also introduced a political tone into what would normally be handled as police cooperation between partner countries.
Broader Implications
The liaison post in Miami matters because it sits at the operational intersection of cross-border policing, immigration enforcement, and intelligence exchange. A PF officer stationed there helps channel information between Brazil and U.S. agencies, especially in cases involving fugitives, transnational crime, or evidence-sharing.
The episode may therefore test a narrow but important part of Brazil-U.S. law-enforcement cooperation. Tatiana's appointment appears designed to restore normal institutional channels quickly, while separating the liaison role from the controversy surrounding Ramagem's detention and Ivo's expulsion.
For now, the known facts remain limited to what Metrópoles reported and what the State Department account said publicly. Neither the PF nor U.S. authorities, in the material available here, provided a fuller explanation of the underlying case or of any formal diplomatic exchange that may have preceded the decision.
accessed on 21 April 2026