Joaquim Luís Cardoso Palmeiro

Joaquim Luís Cardoso Palmeiro worked on treaties, South American affairs, and borders during a diplomatic career that included Washington and Tokyo. A family maintained biographical account identifies him as a law graduate of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, a foreign service entrant in 1966, and head of the ministry’s international agreements office, South America division, and borders division at different stages of his career. It places his Washington service as minister-counselor in 1989–1991. ¹

In October 2001, while Palmeiro was ambassador in Libya, his nomination to represent Brazil concurrently in Malta came before the Senate's foreign relations committee. ^{2, 1}