Waging Peace:  Brazil

Exploring a Hemispheric Agenda

Carter Center representatives met with leaders in Brazil as part of a fact-finding tour Jan. 15-26, 1997, to prepare for the consultation "Agenda for the Americas for the 21st Century." The delegation included former U.S. President Jimmy Carter; Rosalynn Carter; Dr. Robert Pastor, then director of the Center's Americas Program; and Americas Program Director Dr. Jennifer McCoy. Meetings were held with President Fernando Henrique Cardoso and other government officials as well as with representatives of Congress, nongovernmental organizations, and human rights groups. The mission, which included stops in Argentina, Chile, and Jamaica, helped to set the agenda for discussions at the April 1997 consultation at The Carter Center.

Ambassador Ronaldo Sardenberg, minister of strategic affairs, represented President Cardoso at the consultation in Atlanta.

In May 2009, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, with a Carter Center delegation, visited Sao Paolo, where he received the Ordenm do Ipiranga Award, recognizing the Carter administration's work on human rights and democracy promotion in the region.  In addition, the delegation traveled to Brasilia, where they met with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to discuss the planned 2010 presidential elections.

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