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After I and a number of colleagues wrote last month about possible U.S.-Brazil friction on the eve of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s visit to America, a Brazilian diplomat I respect contacted me about what he felt were some misconceptions in my article. The first was the idea that the Obama Administration might have dissed Rousseff by not designating her trip to Washington a full “state visit” with all the pomp it includes. In truth, he said, Rousseff had requested a visit at the same diplomatic level of Obama’s visit to Brazil last year — and contrary to what we in the media understood in 2011, he said, Obama’s was not a full state visit under the Brazilian definition.