Rousseff Seeks U.S. Reconciliation Two Years After NSA Spying
Rousseff Seeks U.S. Reconciliation Two Years After NSA Spying
For Brazil, trade is the priority and President Dilma Rousseff wants to promote manufactured exports to the United States, comments COA’s Eric Farnsworth ahead of Rousseff’s Washington visit.
Brazil is seeking a rapprochement with the U.S. as the Western Hemisphere’s two largest economies try to realign interests after a decade of diplomatic skirmishes.
Brazil president Dilma Rousseff will arrive in New York on Saturday for a five-day tour including San Francisco. It is her first official travel to Washington since she canceled a state visit in 2013 after allegations the U.S. had spied on her....
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Brazil reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 41 percent between 2005 and 2012, according to government data, and has a mostly clean, hydropower-based energy supply. While Rousseff defended environmental priorities in her first term, her second term began during the worst drought in decades that dried up reservoirs and forced the country to rely on dirtier, more expensive fossil fuels and biomass.
The two countries are expected to sign a commitment to work toward a successful December climate change summit in Paris. Brazil will probably wait until after the visit to announce its own carbon emission reduction goals, said Rodrigo de Azeredo, director of trade promotion at Brazil’s foreign ministry.
For Brazil, trade is the priority. Rousseff wants to promote manufactured products the country exports to the U.S. including airplanes and machinery. Though Brazil has had a trade deficit with the U.S. since 2009, it’s a more desirable relationship than with China, which focuses on commodities, said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Council of the Americas....
