Obama Confident Brazil's Democracy Can Resolve Political Crisis

  • Brazil is `a friend' of both U.S. and Argentina, Obama says
  • Argentina's Macri says `Brazil will come out of this stronger'
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President Barack Obama expressed confidence that Brazil will be able to effectively resolve the political crisis currently gripping Latin America’s biggest economy.

“Their democracy is sufficiently mature, institutions and laws are strong enough for this to get resolved -- we need a strong Brazil,” Obama said at a news conference in Buenos Aires on Wednesday alongside President Mauricio Macri during a state visit to Argentina.