State Department: Americas Partnership ‘incomplete’ without Brazil

The Biden administration wants to bring Brazil into its flagship economic initiative with Latin American countries, a State Department spokesperson said on Wednesday, ahead of a visit to Brazil by a senior State official leading the effort. “We consider any economic initiative without Brazil as incomplete,” the spokesperson said in an email, adding that State “very much” wants the country to join the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity. Earlier on Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian...