Brazilian President and Elon Musk to Meet in San Paulo

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and businessman Elon Musk will meet in San Paulo on Friday to discuss a potential partnership on rural connectivity and deforestation monitoring, according to reports.

The meeting takes place after a meeting of the SpaceX and Tesla CEO with the communication minister of Brazil, Fabio Faria in November in Austin, Texas. The two talked about using SpaceX technology to have the internet to rural schools and cut back on illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

According to reports, the meeting will take place in an upscale hotel near the city of Sorocaba in San Paulo state. The meeting will also be attended by several business executives, along with Telecom Italia CEO Pietro Labriola and the chairman of Brazilian lender Banco BTG Pactual, Andre Esteves. 

In 2020 Eduardo Bolsonaro said that he had met with the former charge d’affaires at the US embassy in Brasilia, William Popp, to discuss a plan to attract the automaker to establish a manufacturing unit in the country. Bolsonaro also expressed his desire to visit one of the Tesla plants in the USA, soon after the meeting.