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OBAMA’S VISIT TO BRRELATIONS
By Juan Forero and Perry Bacon Jr.
[1] Shortly after taking office, President Obama
declared Brazil's charismatic president Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva "the most popular politician on Earth."
And Lula said he was "a fan" of Obama.
[5] The relationship held the promise of a closer
alliance between Washington and Brasilia. But it
soon soured, with Lula saying at the end of his term
that the United States behaved as an "empire" and
that "nothing had changed" under Obama.
[10] Now, Obama and Brazil's new president, Dilma
Rousseff, will try to repair at times strained
relations between the two countries as the
American president arrives for a two-day state visit
before flying to Chile, a close U.S. ally, and El
[15] Salvador, where drug-related violence is rising.
There's positive interest on both sides in starting
over," said ]ulia Sweig, a scholar at the Council on
Foreign Relations who recently met with officials in
the new government in Brazil. "Now they have to
[20] translate that optimism and goodwill to figure out
what they can do together that's in both of their
interests, and how to mitigate the tensions that will
naturally arise."
The trip will be Obama's first to South America as
[25] president. Even as the crisis in ]apan and unrest in
the Middle East dominate Obama's national
security briefings, administration officials decided
not to cancel the president's trip but instead cast it
as a way to renew relations with a region that is an
[30] emerging market for U.S.-made goods.
The trip is in part a kind of box-checking exercise,
as the Obama administration wanted to make a
major trip to this region of the world in Obama's
first term. White House officials said they would
[35] use Obama's visit to the three countries, but
particularly Brazil, to emphasize economic issues,
in a nod to an American electorate concerned about
high unemployment.
This trip fundamentally is about the U.S. recovery,
[40] U.S. exports and the critical relationship that Latin
America plays in our economic future and jobs here
in the United States," said Michael Froman, deputy
national security adviser for international
economic affairs.
[45] Brazil is the most influential country in this region,
and American officials, while playing down any
tensions with Lula, have expressed optimism about
establishing close ties With Rousseff.
Fonte: WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE
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