Brazil trip focuses on jobs: Obama
Mar 19, 2011 11:08PM
BRASILIA, Brazil — President Obama promoted his Latin American agenda Saturday, praising Brazil as a soaring economic force and brimming market for trade.
"The United States doesn't simply recognize Brazil's rise; we support it enthusiastically," Obama said in Brasilia, the capital, after meeting with President Dilma Rousseff as he began a five-day trip that also will take him to Chile and El Salvador.
He aims to bolster economic relationships that could add jobs back home and to show the U.S. is engaged with neighbors whose support is needed to fight terrorism, drugs and climate woes.
"We see the chance to sell more goods and services to a rapidly growing market of around 200 million consumers," Obama said at a meeting of corporate leaders in Brasilia. "For us, this is a jobs strategy."
Obama's wife, Michelle, daughters Sasha and Malia, and mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, are traveling with him. AP
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