17 March 2012

BRASIL / USA : Is Obama Downplaying Dilma's First Official Visit?

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/03/16/it-takes-two-to-samba-is-the-u-s-dissing-brazils-dilma-on-the-eve-of-her-visit/
           ANALYSIS/OPINION / T.Padgett


     Is the Obama White House still harboring a snit from former president Lula's obstreperous 2010 agreement with Iran over nukes?
     It could be the reason new President Dilma Rousseff's first official DC meet on 9 April...is not being treated as a 'high level state visit'...unlike Brit PM Cameron's just finished tour. 
     A recent cancellation of a $355 million Embraer airplane deal only adds to the slight/bofetada...as Obama advisers chafe from Brasilia's contrararian positions on Cuba and Syria.