Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he had told his U.S. counterpart George W. Bush to "solve your crisis," in phone talks about the faltering American economy.
In a speech at an entrepreneur forum involving Brazil and Mexico in Recife, capital of Pernambuco state, northeast Brazil, Lula said he had talked about the crisis in two conversations with Bush and listened to Bush's comments on the issue.
Lula added that during the phone calls he said the crisis might harm his country's economic growth. He went on to say that Brazil "had spent 26 years without growing," and when the country resumed its economic growth, the United States had started to make things "complicated."
"I told him: 'Solve your crisis'," he said.
The president also spoke of the importance of the Program for the Acceleration of Growth to stimulate the domestic market and of the welfare program Bolsa Familia.
Source: Xinhua
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