 Os Estados Unidos da América e o Governador do Estado de São Paulo. Ladies e gentlemen, o Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América e o Governador do Estado de São Paulo. Sr. Presidente Ronald Reagan, Sr. Governador José Maria Marin, Srs. autoridades, os companheiros empresários da agricultura, do setor de bancos, do comércio, dos transportes à indústria de todo o país, minhas senhoras, meus senhores. Presidente Reagan, primeiro de todos, por meio dos senhores brasileiros, please allow me to express. Welcome to São Paulo. Sr. Presidente, a visão de riqueza e poderio de seu país inspira-nos a busca de progresso para o Brasil e de bem-estar para os brasileiros. Este é um objetivo que perseguimos, animados pelos ideais de justiça e de liberdade, motivados igualmente pelo valor do trabalho, pelo desafio de construir, pela vontade política de forjar e consolidar uma grande nação. Uma nação livre e forte, uma nação consciente de suas responsabilidades. Vossa excelência encontra o Brasil com dificuldades financeiras geradas em larga parcela por uma conjuntura econômica internacional desfavorável. Mas este Brasil com problemas é uma nação cheia de dignidade, de autoestima e de uma histórica vocação para gerir seu próprio destino do Brasil. Desafio que representa um compromisso comum dos que acreditam do apoio e da colaboração. Um papel que considere o fato de que o Brasil com de confiança que o Brasil requer no momento atual se vincula diretamente ao futuro da democracia. O Brasil é um país que tem 200 empresas americanas fazendo trabalho no Brasil e vários milhares de americanos vivem e trabalham aqui. É uma grande honra para nós para ter nosso presidente no Brasil. Os investimentos americanos sempre tem feito um grande rol no Brasil. Em fato, nós somos o maior solo país de investimento no Brasil e isso é porque de duas razões. Primeiro, porque a energia brasileira e a metodologia do trabalho podem se relacionar e, sobretudo, porque o Brasil continua a oferecer muitas oportunidades para as skillas e talentos americanas. Eu não estaria sincero se eu disseria que nós sempre fomos 100% satisfeitos com a América Unida. Obrigado. Obrigado muito. Obrigado. Obrigado muito. Governador Mareen. Obrigado. Obrigado muito. Obrigado muito. Eu me olhei para este dia. É uma honra falar com as mulheres e homens de enterprise aqui em São Paulo. Esta cidade foi construída pela inovação e trabalho difícil em um espírito de confiança e esperança. Eu perguntei os desejos de uma ameaça de seus negros para o norte, que, como vocês, são americanos, cidadãos de este novo mundo. Como vocês, eles se enganam profundamente para a paz, compartilhar seu amor para a democracia e o seu comitamento para construir um futuro de progresso e oportunidade. Para todos vocês, eu digo, estamos como o Brasil, Ináo, Mudanho, nós estamos com vocês, Brasil, nós não iremos voar. Nós olhamos para o Brasil com a admiração e respeito que está fazendo um grande país. Um dos seus cidadãos renúncios, Monteiro Lobato, viveu no nosso país nos anos 1920 e 1930. E aí ele escreveu um livro chamado America, em que ele disse que o brasileiro considera o seu país o marvel de marvels, mas com um single defecto, que não é conhecido bem, Bem, se ele estava escrevendo hoje, ele poderia ainda dizer que o Brasil é o marvel de marvels, mas ele teria que admitir que sua reputação foi criada com seus achievimentos. Nós ouvimos que ele disse que em um mundo que é rato por tensões políticas, recessão, pobreza, shocks de energia, destes high interest rates e inflações, que há um pouco de esperança para uma nova era de crescimento e prosperidade. Eu nunca iria minimizar os problemas que facemos, ou o necessário urgente para se afetar efetivamente com eles. Eu vou falar sobre eles em um momento. Mas você sabe, eu só tenho que dizer que eu estou por muito tempo agora. Eu continuo sendo lembrado disso. Eu vivi pelas guerras do mundo e da depressão econômica. E o que me surpreendeu, ainda mais do que aquelas crises terríveis de curvação de manzinas, é curvação de manzinas para voltar, para estudar, para encontrar novos curvas e soluções novos. Para todos esses criadores do dom e ao mundo inteiro, nós temos um mensagem. A esperança do mundo vive aqui, em um novo mundo, onde amanhã está sendo construído hoje, por grandes pioneiros, como vocês, pessoas que acreditam em cada outro e que nunca vão perder sua confiança no futuro. Em uma espécie remarca que o presidente Figueiredo deu para o país unido, ele expressou sua confiança na capacidade da comunidade do mundo para renovar. Ele disse ao Brasil que nós fizemos trabalhos consideráveis para o desenvolvimento econômico, com resultados prometidos, que falham com esperança, não apenas as pessoas do Brasil, mas também todas as pessoas que estão em direção com a dignidade humana e o desenvolvimento moderno. Eu compartilho sua confiança. Eu também compartilho com vocês hoje um sonho que eu já tive. Um sonho de strengthening our relations with Brazil and with all our neighbors here in the western hemisphere. On this shrinking planet, the drive for renewal, economic progress and the leadership for world peace must increasingly come from the new world. Here we are blessed with great abundance, resources, technology and most important the spirit of freedom, a spirit that harnesses our energies to pursue a greater good. There is in the world today a counterfeit revolution, a revolution of territorial conquest, a revolution of coercion and thought control, where states rule behind the barrel of a gun and erect barb wire walls not to keep enemies out but to keep their own people in. The real revolution lives in principles that took root here in the new world. The first principle says that mankind will not be ruled in Thomas Jefferson's words by a favored few. The second is a pledge to every man, woman and child no matter what your background, no matter how low your station in life, there must be no limit on your ability to reach for the stars, to go as far as your God-given talents will take you. Trust the people. Believe every human being is capable of greatness capable of self-government. This is the soul of our revolution, the soul of democracy and freedom. It's the new world's gift to the old. Only when people are free to worship, create and build. Only when they are given a personal stake in deciding their destiny and benefiting from their own risks only then do societies become dynamic, prosperous, progressive and prosperous progressive and free. In terms of geography, Brazil is of the south and the United States the north. But in terms of historical ties and fundamental values, we are nations of the west and the new world. And we're among the few nations which exercise worldwide influence and responsibility. As Americans from the north or south, whether we're leaders in government or private industry, we must work harder to break down barriers to opportunity for our people. We must marshal every possible asset for growth. We must insist on sound economic policies at home and more open trading and financial systems around the world. The great republics of south and north, America and the Caribbean have virtually unlimited potential for economic development and human fulfillment. We have a combined population of more than 600 million people. Our continents and islands boast vast reservoirs of food and raw materials. The markets of the Americas have produced high standards of living. We offer hope to oppressed and impoverished people. We're nations of immigrants. Our resources have made the new world a magnet for migration from all continents. But it has been the vision, the enterprise, the skill and the hard work of our people that has created our wealth and well-being. The developing countries of this hemisphere have achieved a record of soaring growth over the last generation. Growth in savings, investment, work and resources. Growth from open world markets trade and finance. Growth from private initiative, risk and reward. The cornerstones of both economic and political freedom. When we in the states look at Brazil, we see the success of an economy that grew fourfold in 20 years more than doubling per capita income. The promise of tomorrow in Brazil's youth with one half your population under 21 and becoming better educated every year. A confident response to the challenge of the 80s diversifying your economy and exports with new markets and technologies. Leadership and vision in daring projects like Itaipu which will be the largest hydroelectric dam in the world and a strong energy substitution drive including the alcohol fuel program which is to power more than half your automobiles by 1985. We also see Brazil's modern pioneers exploring a frontier as challenging as the Amazon. Space. Well, today I'd like to propose an idea to you. To have a Brazilian astronaut train with ours so that Brazil and the United States can one day participate in a shuttle launch together as partners in space. Last night, I told President Figueiredo that the United States has confidence that Brazil will overcome its difficulties just as the United States will overcome its own. But we face serious problems. Your economy has been in recession and so has ours. In the next decade we must both provide millions of jobs for our people. By taking the necessary steps now our countries can lead the world toward a new era of growth. But this time, growth without the albatross of runaway inflation and interest rates. Three things are essential for world, full world recovery and development. We must each move to correct our domestic economic and financial problems. We must protect the integrity of the world's trading and financial systems. And we must work together to help the international system evolve and better assure prosperity. The first most important contribution that any country can make is to get its own economic and financial house in order. Many countries, including our own, did not do so. Somewhere along the way, the leaders of the United States forgot how the American growth miracle was created. We substituted government spending for investment to spur productivity, a bulging bureaucracy e uma nova criação, transfers of wealth for the creation of wealth by rewards for risk taking and hard work, and government subsidies and over regulation for discipline and competition from the magic of the marketplace. For the United States, the way back has been hard. When my administration took over, we faced record interest rates and inflation and the highest peacetime tax burden in our history. Our recovery program is designed to help us make a long overdue transition to an investment powered non-inflationary economy that will put the United States back on the cutting edge of growth. We have cut the growth of federal spending by nearly two thirds and soon we will have reduced personal income tax rates by 25 percent, well more than that, total tax rates. We have increased the rate of tax on interest and dividend income, introduced strong new incentives for savings, encouraged capital foundation by permitting more rapid depreciation of plant and equipment, and aggressively pursued deregulation of markets in energy, transportation and finance. Many of these reforms have been in place for barely a year. Much more remains to be done. You can't wipe away inflation with one year of pennants. But confidence is returning to the United States. We believe recovery is in sight. Inflation and interest rates have been brought down dramatically. Real wages are increasing for the first time in three years. Productivity is up sharply. Venture capital in small business, the best source of job creation and technological innovation is near a record. Our equity markets have made an historic advance on record breaking volume, and our bedrock industry housing has begun to rebound. We are also seeing signs of strength in auto sales. We believe the door is now opening to a lasting broad-based economic expansion over the next several years as the world's largest single market. A prosperous, growing United States economy will mean increased trading opportunities for our friends in the developing world. Brazil is preparing to take advantage of these opportunities. Your country has been making the difficult reforms needed to renew expansion, and this brings me to my second point. All of us are trying to work our way free from this tenacious recession. But we can always make a bad situation worse by damaging those powerful engines of growth, the world's trading and financial systems. Over the last twenty years, Brazil has exported an expanding range of industrial and agricultural products while developing its own raw material resources. Your role in the international trading system is now indispensable. Your potential is enormous. There are some in the industrial world who view your success with apprehension. They fear being overwhelmed by your competition. They fear that one sector after another will be deindustrialized and redeployed to the developing world. Likewise, there are some in the developing world who attribute persistent poverty to industrial powers whom they accuse of exploitation. Well, I can't accept either argument. One need only look at the United States exports to the developing countries of this hemisphere, which have increased sixfold in a decade. The same as imports to see that new competition brings new opportunities. With so many out of work in my country, yours and others, protectionism has become an ugly specter stalking the world. One danger is protection against imports, erecting barriers to shut out the competitive goods and services of others in one's own markets. Another danger is protection of exports, using artificial supports to gain competitive advantage for one's own goods and services in the markets of others. The aim of these actions may be to protect jobs, but the practical result as we know from historical experiences, the destruction of jobs. Protectionism induces more protectionism and this leads only to economic contraction and eventually dangerous instability. And this brings me to my third point. Our crisis today is not between north and south, but between universal aspirations for growth and the longest worldwide recession in postwar history. But let us also acknowledge another fundamental fact of economic life. This recession has had a particularly painful impact on developing countries. They have suffered declining demand in world markets and falling access to financial markets. This greatly complicates our collective recovery. So if it's inevitable that borrowers must move to restrict their deficits, it's equally important that countries like Brazil that adopt effective stabilization plans be assured of continued financing. Lenders and borrowers must remember that each has an enormous stake in the other's success. I concur with your president that we need solidarity and understanding. Last February I spoke before the organization of American states in Washington. I pledged that our administration would seek a new relationship with the nations of the Caribbean and Central and South America. I said that we would approach our neighbors but as not as someone with still another plan but as a friend. Pure and simple. One who seeks their ideas and suggestions on how we could become better neighbors. And this is what we've done in Brasilia. We discussed our problems, compared notes and sought solutions. Let me repeat. We want to go forward with you to help the international system evolve in ways that better assure our mutual prosperity. And we will go forward. To handle a liquidity crisis we have agreed that the international monetary fund resources should be increased. We have also proposed a special borrowing arrangement to make sure that the IMF will have adequate funds to carry out its function. The leading developing nations should all enter the world trading system as full partners. Then they can share more fairly in the gains from trade and at the same time assure more fully the obligations of the trading system. All we ask is that we examine together the mutual trading gains that can be achieved through reciprocal action. I have enormous confidence in the methods that have brought unprecedented benefits in the past. We must improve the mechanisms for the settlement of trade disputes to take economic quarrels out of the political arena and base resolution of conflicts on criteria we all respect. We must complete unfinished business, trade in agriculture which has resisted liberalization in the post-war years and agreed rules on safeguards in the event of injury and divide for transparency and equity. And we must look forward to the emerging challenges of the 1980s such as trade in high technology products and processes. Processes then to devise rules that will ensure we do not impede the growth potential of the technological revolution. Finally, let us remember that justice progresses impossible without peace. Economic growth is a crucial pillar of peace beckoning with brighter horizons all who dream of a better life. To deter aggression the United States must and will remain militarily strong. When I met with His Holiness Pope John Paul II I gave him the pledge of the American people to do everything possible for peace and arms reduction. For the sake of the children of the world we are working to reduce the number and destructive potential of nuclear weapons. We are working to end the deadlock between Israel and Arab neighbors. And we are working as you are to preserve the peace in this hemisphere. When Pope John Paul visited here in 1980 he said to young Brazilians only love can build. Well from the moment we arrived in this land of spectacular beauty and unbounded energy we have been touched by the special warmth of the Brazilian people. We've come to know the heart of Brazil. We will say goodbye knowing her heart is strong her heart is true her heart is good. Brazil will build you will grow and by your side will be the United States in the new world. A partner for progress a partner for peace. E tamos como Brasil e não o mudamos. Thank you very much.