Paulo Marinho (businessman)
Paulo Roberto Franco Marinho (born March 5, 1952) is a Brazilian businessman, executive and politician affiliated with the Republicans (Brazil), Republicans. He worked in the financial market, in the shipbuilding industry, as a communications executive and became a well-known and influential figure in the society of Rio de Janeiro. Marinho joined public life in 2018 after being elected first deputy senator for Rio de Janeiro on Flávio Bolsonaro's ticket as a member of the Social Liberal Party (Brazil), Social Liberal Party (PSL). He played a leading role during the 2018 election as one of the main contributors to President Jair Bolsonaro's election campaign, after providing his residence in Jardim Botânico as "headquarters". The location was used to record the election programs and, after the victory at the polls, to hold the first formal transition meeting and ministerial composition of the current federal government. Marinho and Bolsonaro split at the beginning of 2019 after G ...
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Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a beta global city, Rio de Janeiro is the sixth-most populous city in the Americas. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent João VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a k ...
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