LatinNews Daily - 14 October 2019

Brazil: From 8-11 October US Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs René Clarke Cooper travelled to Brasília for the 2019 US-Brazil Political-Military Dialogue. According to a US State Department press release, as head of the US delegation, Clarke Cooper co-chaired the meeting with Alessandro Candeas, the director of defence and security affairs at Brazil’s foreign ministry, and General Ricardo Rodrigues Canhaci, the deputy chief of policy and strategy at Brazil’s defence ministry. The press release states that the longstanding US-Brazil Political-Military Dialogue reflects “our shared commitment to strengthen bilateral defence and security relations” and would cover “a broad array of political-military topics, including continuing efforts to enhance our bilateral partnerships in security cooperation, defence trade, and peacekeeping”. This will be the first iteration of the dialogue since US President Donald Trump designated Brazil a Major Non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) Ally in July 2019.

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