Excerpts from the Rio Times

More coverage on her visits in the United States from the Rio Times online:

President Rousseff Visits the United States

By Nathan M. Walters, Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – President Dilma Rousseff traveled to Washington D.C. Sunday, April 8th for discussions on the international economic crisis, the Rio+20 Conference, and the new student exchange program, Science Without Borders (“Ciência sem Fronteiras”). On Monday, April 9th, she was at the White House for talks and lunch with the American President Barack Obama.

President Rousseff greets U.S. President Barack Obama, during a meeting at the White House, Roberto Stuckert Filho/Presidência da República.

On Tuesday, April 10th, Rousseff visited Harvard University and MIT as part of the Science Without Borders program launch, that aims to send 100,000 Brazilians to study in the world’s best universities between now and 2014.

A little over a year after President Obama’s official visit to Brasília and Rio de Janeiro in 2011, Rousseff’s first visit was intended to strengthen and deepen economic and diplomatic ties between the two biggest democracies in the Western Hemisphere.

However, with only a brief meeting between the nations’ presidents on Monday, there was a lot to cover in the way of developing a stronger U.S.-Brazil alliance (namely; trade, Brazil ascension to the UN Security Council, the Syrian conflict, and Iran nuclear programs).

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