Obama Calls Brazil Model for North African Democratic Movements
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President Barack Obama, declaring his support for Brazil’s rising global economic clout, said the country can serve as a model for pro-democracy movements around the world, including in North Africa and the Middle East.
Brazil is “a country that shows democracy delivers both freedom and opportunity to its people,” Obama told a crowd yesterday at Rio de Janeiro’s century-old Theatro Municipal. “A country that shows how a call for change that starts in the streets can transform a city, transform a country, transform a world.”