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Don’t Bet Against Brazil

August 30, 2016 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Paulo Sotero is the director of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. An award-winning journalist, from 1989 to 2006 he was the Washington correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo, a leading Brazilian daily newspaper. Sotero began his career at Veja in the late 1960s and worked for the magazine in São Paulo, Recife, Brasília, and Paris, until he was named its correspondent in Portugal after the democratic revolution of April 25, 1974. Sotero has been in Washington, D.C., since 1980, where he has been a correspondent for Istoé weekly magazine and the financial newspaper Gazeta Mecantil. He is a frequent guest commentator for the BBC, CNN, AlJazeera, Voice of America, National Public Radio, Globo News Television and the Brazilian Radio Network – CBN. He also contributes regularly to Brazilian and international newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals.