1. International Issues
Brazil

2. What do you know already?
5 things you know about Brazil.
What do you associate with Brazil?

3. What am I learning today?
Facts about Brazil
Brazil’s position within Latin America
The political leaders of Brazil

4. Fact file
Brazil is South America's most influential country, an economic giant and one of the world's biggest democracies.
It has a history of economic boom and bust and its development has been slowed down by high inflation and foreign debt.

5. Full name: Federative Republic of Brazil
Population: million (UN, 2010)
Capital: Brasilia
Largest city: Sao Paulo
Area: 8.55 million sq km (3.3 million sq miles)
Major language: Portuguese
Major religion: Christianity
Life expectancy: 70 years (men), 77 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 real = 100 centavos
Main exports: Manufactured goods, iron ore, coffee, oranges, other agricultural produce

6. Brasilia

7. Rio de Janeiro

8. Sao Paulo

9. The Amazon

10. At a glance
Politics: Lula, Brazil's ( former) left-leaning president, is popular among the poor but his party has been tarnished by corruption claims; he won a second term in 2006.
Today: Dilma Rousseff is the first woman to be elected as Brazil's president. She is former chief of staff to, and favoured successor of, outgoing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Economy: Brazil has Latin America's largest economy; there has been steady growth under Lula but millions live in poverty
International: Brazil wants a permanent seat at the UN Security Council; relations with Bolivia suffered in 2006 over access to Bolivian gas

11. Lula, Brazil’s most popular president. He had working class roots.
Dilma Rousseff