Brazilian officials said they had received no formal notice from Washington after the United States moved to expel Marcelo Ivo de Carvalho, a Brazilian Federal Police officer serving as liaison in Miami, turning what might have been a routine bilateral matter into a diplomatic irritant.
Andrei Rodrigues, the director-general of Brazil’s Federal Police, said on Tuesday that the agency had not been officially informed of any decision by the U.S. government. He added that he would not comment on the basis of a social media post alone. According to Metrópoles, Rodrigues said the force had received no "decision" from the United States and therefore had no basis for a formal position.
Officials at Itamaraty, Brazil’s foreign ministry, made a similar point. According to the report, Brazilian diplomats said there had been no prior formal communication from the U.S. side and that the message had instead been conveyed indirectly. The Brazilian government is now awaiting an official state-to-state communication through standard diplomatic channels.
The case gained public attention on Monday after Metrópoles reported that Carvalho would be required to leave the country. Later that day, the information was confirmed through a post on X by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, according to the reports.
Carvalho has served as the Federal Police liaison officer in Miami since August 2023. He is a career officer with 22 years in the force. Metrópoles said he joined the institution as a police commissioner and previously served as the Federal Police superintendent in Paraíba from February 2022 to January 2023. Before that, he worked in São Paulo in a regional role focused on investigations and combating organized crime.
The political sensitivity of the episode appears to stem in part from Carvalho’s role in the arrest of Alexandre Ramagem, a former federal lawmaker from the right-wing Liberal Party, or PL, and a former head of Brazil’s intelligence agency Abin. The reports say Carvalho took part in Ramagem’s arrest in the United States. Ramagem was later released two days afterward, according to the same coverage.
That link has given the episode broader political resonance in Brasília, where disputes involving the Federal Police, senior security officials and figures associated with former president Jair Bolsonaro’s orbit often spill into the diplomatic arena. Still, the reporting available so far does not show either government publicly detailing the legal or administrative basis for the U.S. request.
At this stage, much of the public record remains thin. The Brazilian side says it has not yet received the formal diplomatic notice normally expected in cases involving foreign officials stationed abroad. The U.S. side, as cited by Metrópoles, confirmed the request publicly but, in the material provided here, did not offer a fuller explanation.
Because the reporting is based on two articles from the same outlet and no official bilateral note has been disclosed, this remains effectively single-outlet reporting on a developing diplomatic dispute. What is clear is that Brasília is treating the manner of the communication, not only the substance of the decision, as part of the problem.
Sources: Metrópoles, "Itamaraty reage a ordem de saída de delegado da PF dos EUA"; Metrópoles, '"Não recebemos nenhuma decisão", diz Andrei sobre saída de delegado da PF dos EUA'.
Fonts: https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/milena-teixeira/nao-recebemos-nenhuma-decisao-diz-andrei-sobre-saida-de-delegado-da-pf-dos-eua https://www.metropoles.com/colunas/milena-teixeira/itamaraty-reage-a-ordem-de-saida-de-delegado-da-pf-dos-eua
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