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Brazil interested in purchasing Chinook helicopters

Washington, USA - The possible agreement is part of a broader program of US armaments supply to the South American country

Edward Snowden’s revelations caused tension between Brazil and the United States, when they showed that president Dilma Roussef was among the world leaders spied by Washington. After knowing the news, Roussef cancelled a state visit to the USA and Brazil scrapped plans to buy Boeing F/A-18 fighter airplanes. But relations between these two countries seem more relaxed now. According to the press a...

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Rome, Italy, 10/17/2014 11:00
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