February 12, 2005
Brazil seeks military sales with Venezuela

(Reuters) - "Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to lobby Venezuela to buy Brazilian-made light combat aircraft and take part in joint military exercises in the Amazon rain forest, Brazil's foreign ministry said.

Lula proposed that the Venezuelan air force buy more Tucano turbo-prop planes made by Empresa Brazileira de Aeronautica SA or Embraer (EMBR4.SA), the world's fourth-largest aircraft maker, when he met Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (...)

Brazilian companies may work with Venezuela to develop a military surveillance system to monitor the Orinoco and Amazon regions, the foreign ministry said.

Brazil uses Embraer's Tucano aircraft to patrol the Amazon for drug traffickers (...)"