"Obama places Brazil as a global model"
U.S. President stresses the system of freedom of the country progress
BY: Antonio Cano.
The favela City of God, who yesterday visited Barack Obama, is, like so many of Rio, the reflection of the greatness and misery that define Brazil: a population beset by poverty and crime that is defended with a admirable entrepreneurial spirit. Along with poverty, rampant today banks, restaurants and tours that feed crafts and small businesses. "People should not look at the favelas with compassion, "said the American president," but as a source of presidents, lawyers, doctors, artists and people with solutions. "
was one of the examples that Obama used to stress the virtues of contemporary Brazil , a vibrant democracy and proud, as a model for the present time not only in Latin America, where other countries are progressing and similar paths, but in other regions such as the Arab world in the throes of transformation uncertain.
A different scale, Brazil is like China, a nation on whose greatness has always been speculated as a mere prediction. The phrase "when China wakes" is perfectly applicable to Brazil. Obviously, China has awakened, and Obama also noted that Brazil yesterday.
"This is no longer the country of the future. For the people of Brazil, the future has already arrived," the president said in a speech at the Teatro Municipal. Was originally planned scenario Cinelandia Square, but was changed at the last minute, probably because of the protests of 48 hours earlier.
There were no signs of protests yesterday. Obama was well received in the favela and the rest of your journey. The president referred to his peculiar biography to plead emotionally very close to the multiracial people of Brazil, where there seems to have made more enemies Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who refused to eat with him in Brasilia.
What Lula has against Obama can not be suspicious of the U.S. president to left alignment. More left is the history of the current president, Dilma Rousseff, an ex-guerrilla who was banned from entering the U.S., and Obama shamelessly praised yesterday: "She knows what it is to live without the most basic human rights, but also knows what it is to persevere and know what it is overcome. "
Transit Rousseff from political activism towards pragmatism is also, according to Obama, evidence of a country that has managed to build a system open and participatory political. "They are thriving as a free people, with open markets and a government that responds to its citizens. They are demonstrating that the goal of social justice can be achieved through freedom, that democracy is the best partner in human progress" said. 
But Obama is not in Brazil only to praise its political system. It is, as acknowledged in his speech to trade agreements and participate as a member or beneficiary of its buoyant economy. "In the last decade the progress that Brazil has inspired the world," he said. He forgot to add that has attracted investors and sellers. Obama Rousseff has spoken on the sale of F-18. No agreement yet.
But Obama is not in Brazil only to praise its political system. It is, as acknowledged in his speech to trade agreements and participate as a member or beneficiary of its buoyant economy. "In the last decade the progress that Brazil has inspired the world," he said. He forgot to add that has attracted investors and sellers. Obama Rousseff has spoken on the sale of F-18. No agreement yet.
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