Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called Chinese President Xi Jinping on June 24 to coordinate actions against U.S. monetary policy, Folha de Sao Paulo reported.
An estimated 1 million people took to the streets across Brazil on June 20 as the country's biggest protests in two decades intensified, Reuters reported.
The largest economy in Latin America, Brazil is a geographically complex country with a strong and growing influence in South America. Brazil faces many institutional and geographic challenges as it develops into a regional and someday global power.
