Brazilian ambassador: Brazil to need one hundred thousand Spanish language teachers / Brasil necesitará cien mil profesores de lengua española

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Source: abc.com.py (Spanish)

The entire article goes into more detail on universities and whatnot, but wasn't interesting enough to translate IMO. It might be worth taking a look over for those interested.

Brasil necesitará cien mil profesores de lengua española

Brazil to need one hundred thousand Spanish language teachers

El embajador de Brasil en España, José Viegas Filho, dijo hoy que su país necesitará cien mil profesores de español en los próximos años como consecuencia de la política de bilingüismo que ha implantado el Gobierno del presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Viegas Filho...dijo a los periodistas que la implantación del español como segunda lengua “no significa que todos los brasileños vayan a ser bilingües” y criticó a los países vecinos de Brasil que “se olvidan de que hay una lengua hermana que es el portugués”.

The Brazilian ambassador in Spain, José Viegas Filho, said today that his country will need 100,000 Spanish teachers in the coming years as a consequence of the policy of bilingualism that the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has carried out. Viegas Filho...said to reporters that the introduction of Spanish as a second language "doesn't mean that all Brazilians will be bilingual" and criticized the countries next to Brazil that "have forgotten that they have a sister language, Portuguese."

En la actualidad, dijo el diplomático, “estamos ante una crisis internacional, que no es causada por nosotros (Brasil) pero que también nos puede afectar”, aunque expresó su confianza en que su país siga creciendo y “ no se deje afectar por una recesión que parece ser muy fuerte en el Atlántico norte ” .

At present, said the diplomat, "we are facing an international crisis which was not caused by us (Brazil) but which can still affect us", though he expressed confidence that his country would continue to grow and "will not be affected by a recession that seems to be very strong in the North Atlantic."