13 December 2010

BRASIL: U.S. TV News "Discovers" Brasil's New Economic Muscle.

CBS NEWS/ 60 MINUTES/ 13:20 /

   Sunday, America's powerhouse prime time news program
"60 Minutes" included a segment with a primer about Brasil's checkered economic history and recent success by reporter Steve Kroft.
   There are brief comments by Brasil's version of Carlos Slim, $27 billionaire booster Eike Batista, who delights in the prospect of feeding econovore China's appetite for raw materials, out-going President Lula da Silva, who delightfully doesn't speak English, doubting commentator and author Eduardo Bueno but NOT with president-elect Dilma Rousseff.



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