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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): Next, charting the rise of Brazil as a new and growing power on the global stage.
Jeffrey Brown profiles one of the men who helped build it.
JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): Yes, Brazil is still a soccer power. And, yes, it's still famous for its music and Carnival.
But, today, Brazil is something much more. A nation of 200 million, it's now the world's sixth largest economy, an energy giant with a booming manufacturing sector and growing middle class, in short, an economic and democratic power very much on the rise, and decidedly not the nation Fernando Henrique Cardoso was born into.
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