Latinnews Daily - 7 October 2003

The agriculture minister, Roberto Rodrí­gues, criticised the foreign ministry, known as Itarmaraty, for the way it behaved in the Free Trade in Americas negotiations in Trinidad last week. He said that Itarmaraty, which is widely seen as the most influential of the country's ministries and which attracts the brightest graduates, had acted high-handedly. Rodrí­gues made it clear that he had no complaint about the general thrust of Brazilian trade policy over the FTAA (against) but only with the clumsy way it was being pursued. 

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