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Welcome!
Purpose of the Partnership:
The California-Brazil partnership emanated from the twelfth of a series
of visits between California Legislators and Brazilian officials. This
dynamic relationship seeks to expand
trade and investment, exchange
educational methodologies, address
environmental concerns, create
social programs, and
communicate cultural practices. As California and Brazil rapidly
move into a world without boundaries, we hope to promote the
free-flowing exchange of ideas which can stimulate growth, competition,
innovation and global citizenship.
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This partnership builds upon the potentials and parallels between Brazil and California. As Senator John Vasconcellos (ret., 13th District) noted in his introduction to Toward a California-Brazil Partnership: A Strategic Action Plan, "Despite Brazil’s dynamic composition, despite its having become the economic powerhouse of South America, it faces major challenges for its underprivileged children and adults, environmentalists, urban developers, and educators, again, not unlike California. All this creates enormous and promising opportunities for vision, insight, innovation, development, leadership and collaboration opportunities to make a difference in this world, many times over."
We hope to provide for California’s citizens and their legislative representatives a tangible, practical means by which we can extend and deepen our relationship with Brazil. We hope this relationship can become a catalyst for Californians to recognize and address critical observations and policy questions, with special emphasis on California’s role in international affairs as the most populous state in the United States and the sixth largest economy in the world. We owe it to ourselves to act boldly, now, to become partners leading the way into a shared future.
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