Call to block key Bolsonaro ally from World Bank job

Bank employees cite Abraham Weintraub's racist and derogatory remarks and petition ethics committee to stop appointment

The World Bank is facing growing pressure to block Brazilian attempts to hand one of Jair Bolsonaro's most notorious allies a plum 210,000-a-year-job at its headquarters in Washington.

Abraham Weintraub, who until last week was the Brazilian president's hard-right education minister, flew to the US, possibly using a diplomatic passport to skirt a Covid-19 ban on travellers from Brazil.