Arquivo

The figure of the Brazilian ambassador Sergio Vieira de Mello, killed in a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad in August, 2003, is brought to life through a series of interviews conducted in eight countries. Forty people that knew him talk of the work of this diplomat who fought against bureaucracy and for a renovation of the United Nations Organisation, with particular emphasis on his missions in countries such as Mozambique, where he lived for two years, Cambodia (one year) and Timor East (his home for two and a half years). The attack which killed him in Iraq marked the end of an era of international humanitarian aid and ushered in one of new uncertainty.