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Brazil's pres Bolsonaro, wooing Trump, opens base to US rockets
Last update: 19/03/2019
WASHINGTON, March 19 (BERNAMA-NNN-AGENCIES) – Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, signed a deal Monday to open a base to US satellite launches as he appealed for warm relations with Donald Trump on a visit to Washington.
The outspoken conservative, who will meet Trump at the White House on Tuesday, has ideological affinities with the US leader and has broken Brazilian precedent by heading to Washington, not Argentina, for his first official trip abroad.
Promoting a business-friendly approach after more than a decade of socialist presidents, Bolsonaro signed an agreement with US companies on technical safeguards to allow commercial satellite launches from the Alcantara base in the northern Brazilian state of Maranhao.
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http://www.bernama.com/en/world/news.php?id=1706643
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