Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed

The Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy’s Ambassador John Price and Marcia Price World Affairs Lecture Series, in partnership with Westminster College's Weldon J. Taylor Executive Lecture Series and American Express, presents a lecture by Larry Rohter on “Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed” on Tuesday, October 12, 2010, at 7 p.m. in the Vieve Gore Concert Hall in the Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory at Westminster College. Two decades ago, Brazil had a debt that made some Third World countries blush. But today, it has the world’s eighth largest economy, poised to overtake France. It has achieved energy independence and, with the discovery of the largest oil field in the last century, is becoming a major exporter of crude oil to the United States. With its successful bid for the 2016 Olympics, Brazil, at last, is ready to take its place on the world stage. In Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter reveals with fresh perspective how, while no one was looking, Brazil has become an industrial and agricultural powerhouse. Rohter served as a Newsweek correspondent and later as the New York Times bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro for 14 years. He is widely considered the leading expert on Brazil.