The bitter war between France and the United States take the contract to modernize the Brazilian Air Force, considered one of the biggest deals of the decade, has experienced a significant shift to state publicly yesterday the new president Dilma Rousseff the F- 18 Boeing Super Hornet is a better deal than the Rafale, Dassault.
The agency said the Brazilian president raised the issue of fighter aircraft during the important visit of U.S. Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, and assured him his preference for the purchase of more than 30 F-18 aircraft, provided that they improve some aspects of technology transfer, a large Brazilian demand.
The announcement is a major turnaround from the position held by former President Lula da Silva, who showed their sympathy for the French offer, to the extent that the cables revealed by Wikileaks U.S. embassy came to identify as "the biggest obstacle "to secure the contract. The same telegram indicated that the military leaders supported the purchase of the Super Hornet U.S., as Defense Minister, Nelson Jobim, but insisted that Washington would not be possible while not authorize Boeing to conduct more technology transfer.
"As a lawyer and judge, came to explain Jobim," I always tend to look at the record and the U.S. when it comes to examining the chapter on transfers are not flattering. " The arrival to the presidency of Dilma Rousseff has enabled a significant shift to the Brazilian policy regarding the United States, not only in the field.
Lula maintained excellent relations with Washington, but in his eagerness to strengthen the international role of your country is offered as an interlocutor in the negotiations with Iran to curb its nuclear program. Washington looked with suspicion, but with discretion, that approach to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which ended without apparent results.
Moreover, in a speech in late January to Holocaust survivors in the influential Jewish Confederation of Brazil (CONIBO) Rousseff made a spirited defense of human rights by their country in the world: "My government will be a tireless advocate for equality and human rights anywhere in the world, "he said.
The speech was a clear indication of the change in policy toward Iran. The Iranian regime denies the Holocaust. The output of Lula and the arrival of Rousseff allowed the Brazilian diplomacy quickly modified his position and promote a new and powerful approach to the Obama Administration.
The U.S. response has been immediate: 10 days after his inauguration came to Brasilia, the influential Republican senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, who had an interview with Rousseff. Although no terms were released of the conversation, it was learned that the two discussed the issue of F-18 and that McCain said he was "hopeful." Three weeks after President Obama announced he would visit Brazil in late March, a gold brooch that was preceded, moreover, by the arrival of Geithner. 
The agency said the Brazilian president raised the issue of fighter aircraft during the important visit of U.S. Treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, and assured him his preference for the purchase of more than 30 F-18 aircraft, provided that they improve some aspects of technology transfer, a large Brazilian demand.
The announcement is a major turnaround from the position held by former President Lula da Silva, who showed their sympathy for the French offer, to the extent that the cables revealed by Wikileaks U.S. embassy came to identify as "the biggest obstacle "to secure the contract. The same telegram indicated that the military leaders supported the purchase of the Super Hornet U.S., as Defense Minister, Nelson Jobim, but insisted that Washington would not be possible while not authorize Boeing to conduct more technology transfer.
"As a lawyer and judge, came to explain Jobim," I always tend to look at the record and the U.S. when it comes to examining the chapter on transfers are not flattering. " The arrival to the presidency of Dilma Rousseff has enabled a significant shift to the Brazilian policy regarding the United States, not only in the field.
Lula maintained excellent relations with Washington, but in his eagerness to strengthen the international role of your country is offered as an interlocutor in the negotiations with Iran to curb its nuclear program. Washington looked with suspicion, but with discretion, that approach to the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which ended without apparent results.
Moreover, in a speech in late January to Holocaust survivors in the influential Jewish Confederation of Brazil (CONIBO) Rousseff made a spirited defense of human rights by their country in the world: "My government will be a tireless advocate for equality and human rights anywhere in the world, "he said.
The speech was a clear indication of the change in policy toward Iran. The Iranian regime denies the Holocaust. The output of Lula and the arrival of Rousseff allowed the Brazilian diplomacy quickly modified his position and promote a new and powerful approach to the Obama Administration.
The U.S. response has been immediate: 10 days after his inauguration came to Brasilia, the influential Republican senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, who had an interview with Rousseff. Although no terms were released of the conversation, it was learned that the two discussed the issue of F-18 and that McCain said he was "hopeful." Three weeks after President Obama announced he would visit Brazil in late March, a gold brooch that was preceded, moreover, by the arrival of Geithner.
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