Brazil - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Brazil Index / Locations Transcripts Jake Sullivan ...Council. It involved working with Brazil and Turkey and others. So I put a lo... ...China, India, South Africa, and Brazil , four of the major emerging economie... ...Latin America. I traveled with him to Brazil . I traveled to the Caribbean, t... Ricardo Zúniga ...was later consul general in São Paulo, Brazil . Prior to his position on the NSC, h... ...in the US embassy in Brasilia, Brazil , 2010 to 2012, and deputy director i... ...as a political counselor in Brasilia, Brazil . How did that come about? Had you ha... ...Shannon had been named ambassador to Brazil , and I had a good relationship wit... ...had a good rapport with counterparts in Brazil and Brasilia. And I wanted to work fo... ...was a very interesting time in Brazil too. Were you there for Dilm... ...to get right into televised debates. Brazil is in many ways like the United States... ...been a superstar, had been president of Brazil . And so, we weren't sure exactly wha... ...Dilma, the first female president of Brazil —I've read that with Obama being th... ...change the relationship? And I know Brazil factored very large in the way Obam... ...This was the period of the BRICS [ Brazil , Russia, India, China, and Sout... ...much—there was this view on the part of Brazil that they were being left out of thei... ...exercise influence and its world view. Brazil , at least at the policy level—in th... ...States stands for the use of force and Brazil stands for something else. This playe... ...often at the UN Security Council, where Brazil was hoping to be made a permanen... ...of convergence. There was a view that Brazil had something to offer. One of thos... ...was sort of this irreversible climb by Brazil to finally achieve its potential. Wha... ...so many other economies. But clearly Brazil was part of an expanded internationa... ...[Workers' Party], the ruling party in Brazil , and their view of really skepticis... ...the most important part of the US– Brazil relationship. Now, on the trip itself... ...to the NSC. We'll come back to Brazil at the end, but I want to ask, as yo... ...I want to ask, as you were departing Brazil , what your sense of that was. It wa... ...was that I would work to return to Brazil if I went to Washington, that we woul... ...on a lot of these issues together. Brazil was important in that relationship, an... ...relationship, and so having worked on Brazil and Cuba, and having had a goo... ...sometimes that generated friction with Brazil , and at that point Argentina an... ...had many allies in Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil to some extent, although they weren'... ...I'm very proud of what we did with Brazil . I'm very proud of what we did in th... Show more... William Burns ...been supplied either by Argentina or Brazil —I can't remember which—years before... Wally Adeyemo ...started to shrink, and countries like Brazil , the economy started to grow, an... ...and the Brazilians, and the BRICs [ Brazil , Russia, India, China] creating thei... ...economies are coming of age, in China, Brazil , Russia, India. I'm wondering whethe... ...and a host of emerging countries like Brazil and South Africa, were terribl... James Jones ...President [Luiz I.] Lula [da Silva] of Brazil came to Washington and made a very goo... ...Canada on the north end, and a strong Brazil on the south end, especially tw... ... And it just didn't work out that way. Brazil under Lula eventually collapsed... Akram Dweikat ...At the time, they were holding it in Brazil , Rio de Janeiro. I get the visa afte... ...and for me this is the first time to Brazil . I never went after that actually. S... John Kerry ...all of us went to Rio [de Janeiro, Brazil ] in 1992. And we were deeply committe... ...we all went down to Rio [de Janeiro, Brazil ] to the Earth Summit [UN Conference o... ...with reluctant countries: Australia, Brazil , India at that period of time, Saud... ...together so many parties? You mentioned Brazil , India, Saudi Arabia, who are—thi... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Labor Labor go to the Native America Native America