Pursuits
Brazil’s Tourism Minister Resigns Just Weeks Before Olympics
- Alves is Temer’s third minister to leave over graft scandal
- Temer said allegations won’t sidetrack economic program
Henrique Eduardo Alves visits the construction site of the Olympic Park in June 2015.
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Brazil’s Tourism Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves resigned on Thursday, just seven weeks before the start of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The presidential press office confirmed his departure in a statement. His resignation came a day after the Supreme Court published testimony from a former corporate executive that Alves had lobbied for illicit campaign donations. Alves wrote on his Twitter account that all campaign financing he requested as head of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party was within the law.