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April 10, 2012

Brazil and U.S. Accentuate the Positive

Romero & Calmes, New York Times

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The friendliness belied a sense that the United States, whose once-dominant sway in Latin America is ebbing, and Brazil, the hemisphere's rising power, still do not see eye to eye on a range of important issues, from Middle East diplomacy to trade with Cuba and Brazil's ambitions of obtaining a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.

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TAGGED: United States, Brazil, Dilma Rousseff

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