{"id":382,"date":"2008-12-26T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T13:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=382"},"modified":"2008-12-26T09:20:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T13:20:31","slug":"brazil-and-france-sign-arms-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazil-and-france-sign-arms-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil and France Sign Arms Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Brazil, where he met with President Lula in Rio de Janeiro. On Tuesday, they signed an arms agreement worth US$12 billion to help Brazil protect its oil fields and the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The deal involves the purchase of fifty Super Cougar helicopters from France, as well as the joint assembly of a nuclear submarine and four diesel submarines. The deal will make Brazil the first Latin American country to own a nuclear submarine. France will also provide night vision equipment and remote monitoring technology for military use in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601086&amp;sid=a40I1rLdhRko&amp;refer=latin_america\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-fg-brazil-france-arms24-2008dec24,0,5846480.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a> coverage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0c\/Lula-Sarkozy.jpg\/800px-Lula-Sarkozy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"309\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/12\/800px-Lula-Sarkozy-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/12\/800px-Lula-Sarkozy-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/12\/800px-Lula-Sarkozy-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2008\/12\/800px-Lula-Sarkozy.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>This week, President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Brazil, where he met with President Lula in Rio de Janeiro. On Tuesday, they signed an arms agreement worth US$12 billion to help Brazil protect its oil fields and the Amazon. The deal involves the purchase of fifty Super Cougar helicopters from France, as well as the joint&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazil-and-france-sign-arms-agreement\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":7095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1845],"tags":[1908,1949,379368,2149,2226],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brazilian-news","tag-arms-deal","tag-brazil","tag-economy","tag-france","tag-international-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}