Sylvio Ribeiro de Carvalho

Sylvio Ribeiro de Carvalho moved from military training into diplomacy in 1932. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1904, he had attended the military school and held the rank of first lieutenant before entering the consular career. His early appointments took him to Antwerp, La Paz, Montevideo, London, and Buenos Aires. At the Foreign Ministry he headed communications services and later the consular and passport divisions. ¹

Carvalho served as minister in Costa Rica and as minister-counselor in Washington. He served three times as acting head of the Washington embassy in 1953 and 1954, spanning the transition between Walther Moreira Salles and João Carlos Muniz. He subsequently became consul general in New Orleans. In 1962 President João Goulart nominated him as ambassador to Ecuador; a further nomination to represent Brazil in Morocco followed in 1964. ^{1, 2}