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Weekly Report - 30 January 2014 (WR-14-04)
BRAZIL: Trying to make sense of Rousseff's foreign policy
In her first three years in office, President Dilma Rousseff has made only a few more trips abroad than her predecessor Lula da Silva did in his first year in office alone. While Lula’s term of office was characterised by an energetic, if contentious, foreign policy, Rousseff has been largely content to focus on domestic issues. As such her recent travels to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) in Cuba have begged the question of what her foreign policy priorities are. However, the immediate aftermath of the trip has been overshadowed by a row about who paid for what during an unscheduled stop-over in Lisbon.
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