Ministry of Infrastructure (Brazil)
It was a body of the direct administration of the Brazilian state, responsible for national traffic and transport policies (air, rail, road and waterway, in addition to airport and port infrastructure).The body succeeded the Ministry of Transport, having received the new designation and the attributions related to traffic with the election of Jair Bolsonaro to the Presidency of Republic.[8] After the Republic of Brazil was proclaimed in 1889, the administration of the country was restructured, and in December 1892 the Ministry of Industry, Transport and Public Works was created, to which the attributions of the Secretary of Agriculture passed, extinct in November 1892.Previously linked to the Presidency of the Republic, the attributions and powers of the secretariats became part of the Ministry of Transport, Ports and Civil Aviation.The first to take office as the new minister of Transport, Ports and Civil Aviation was the federal deputy from Alagoas (on that period), Maurício Quintella Lessa.