Presidential Letter from Brazil to America

President Rousseff of Brazil Writes 9/11 Letter to President Obama

BRAZILIA, Brazil – President Dilma Rousseff sent on Saturday, a message to the U.S. President, Barack Obama, which expressed solidarity and sympathy for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th. Rousseff says that “violent extremism must be combated in all its forms, including through reconciliation between the West and the Arab world,” reports O Globo online.

Watching 9/11 from Brazil

Yahoo! is asking Americans how September 11 changed them. Below is an account from a reader.

On Sept. 11, 2001, we were watching TV at home in Brazil. Antonio da Costa Santos, the mayor of our city of Campinas in the state of Sao Paulo, had been killed the day before. "Toninho do PT," as we called him, had been elected with about 60 percent of the votes cast and was doing a great job.

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