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Brazil's Bid for Foreign Markets

Jun 12, 2013 | 15:44 GMT

Brazil's Bid for Foreign Markets
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and his Brazilian counterpart, Antonio Patriota, at a news conference in Rio de Janeiro on June 11.

(VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)

Summary

Meetings between the Russian and Brazilian foreign ministers June 11 will focus on relatively unexciting topics such as agricultural trade. But they come as Brazil appears to be increasingly playing the United States and Russia off one another in what may be a serious bid for foreign market access — particularly with the United States.

Defense relationships that could define Brazil's position in the world for years to come are at stake....

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