Inter-American Dialogue | Brazil and Southern Cone

FEATURED

On April 9, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff made her first trip to the White House. In a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, Peter Hakim called on both countries to move their economic relations forward, a suggestion echoed by Dialogue member Moises Naim in the Financial Times. However, though member Abraham Lowenthal is optimistic in a Folha de S. Paulo article that the visit will build greater mutual trust between the two countries, Hakim and experts Paulo Soltero and Joao Augusto de Castro Neves, who spoke at the Dialogue on April 5, believe the visit will do little to move bilateral relations beyond the status quo. See more of Hakim's commentary on the visit on PBS NewsHour, O Estado de S. Paulo, and Al Jazeera English.

ABOUT

The Dialogue's program on Brazil and the Southern Cone examines the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chile. Issues include democratic governance, energy, trade capacity building, the environment, and international relations. The program regularly hosts meetings and events that draw important political analysts, politicians, NGO and labor leaders, and economists.

The Latin America Working Group of the Dialogue will meet in Brazil in December 2011, where it will convene the region’s leading analysts and practitioners to discuss Latin America’s democratic, economic, social, and political development as well as the role of regional institutions and the influence of hemispheric actors, such as Brazil.

STAFF

Michael Shifter, President
Peter Hakim, President Emeritus
Kim Covington, Program Assistant

For more information, please contact Kim Covington at kcovington@thedialogue.org or (202) 463-2938.

PUBLICATIONS

Latin America and the United States: Looking Towards 2020, by Sergio Bitar, September 7, 2011.
Un futuro común: Chile, Bolivia, Perú, by Sergio Bitar, October 9, 2011.
Obama's Visit to Latin America: A View from the South, by Sergio Bitar, February 25, 2011 (Spanish).
La apuesta de invertir para una mejor educación: Evaluando la Ley de Financiamiento Educativo en la Argentina, 2006-2010, by PREAL and CIPPEC, August 31, 2010.
Overcoming Inertia?: A Report Card on Education in Brazil, 2009, by PREAL and Fundação Lemann, August 5, 2011 (Portuguese).

MORE PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES & OP-EDS

A U.S.-Brazil Respect Deficit, by Peter Hakim, The Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2012.
Rousseff should leave US with a trade deal, by Moises Naim, Financial Times, April 8, 2012.
Australia's Latin American Opportunity, by Alexis Arthur, The Interpreter, March 21, 2012.
Dilma em Cuba, by Peter Hakim, O Estado de S. Paulo, February 18, 2012.
Lecciones de la visita de Dilma a Cuba, by Peter Hakim, Infolatam, February 8, 2012.
Does Brazil's Rousseff Care Enough About Cuban Democracy?, by Peter Hakim, Lino Gutierrez, Margaret Daly Hayes, Daniel Hellinger, Latin America Advisor, February 8, 2012.
O Brasil e a agenda de segurança dos EUA, by Peter Hakim, Política Externa, January/February, 2012.
Deseo mutuo de reducir tensiones, by Michael Shifter, El Perfil, October 30, 2011 (English).
A paciência se esgota, by Roberto Teixiera Da Costa, O Globo, October 7, 2011.
Sobre Proletarios y "Precarios," by Genaro Arriagada, El Mercurio, August 2, 2011.
Why Haven't Brazil, Argentina and Chile Backed Carstens? by Peter Hakim, Markus Jaeger, John Williamson, Riordan Roett, Latin America Advisor, June 23, 2011.
Brazil and the U.S.: Remaking a Relationship, by Peter Hakim, Foreign Service Journal, June 9, 2011.
Ethanol: A New Growth Cycle, by Marco Jank, Correio Braziliense, Arpil 27, 2011.