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Obama to Brazil: send us your affluent, money-spending masses

Paulo Sotero

Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute, discusses Brazil's growing growing purchasing power abroad.

Brazil, which as payback requires Americans to obtain visas to visit it, hasn’t met a key, if obscure, criterion for VWP eligibility: that a country’s U.S. tourist-visa application-refusal rate be less than 3%. “But Brazil is edging toward that,” says Paulo Sotero, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute in Washington. 

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Paulo Sotero

Paulo Sotero

Distinguished Fellow, Brazil Institute
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Brazil Institute

The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—works to foster understanding of Brazil’s complex reality and to support more consequential relations between Brazilian and US institutions in all sectors. The Brazil Institute plays this role by producing independent research and programs that bridge the gap between scholarship and policy, and by serving as a crossroads for leading policymakers, scholars and private sector representatives who are committed to addressing Brazil’s challenges and opportunities.  Read more