Is the overwhelming advance of Brazilian agribusiness being slowed down? Gedeão Silveira Pereira, the second in command of the CNA, warns that Lula is

Published 2025년 11월 21일

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Gedeão Silveira Pereira could appear more Argentine than Uruguayan or Brazilian. What is certain is that he is a true "gaucho." A cattle rancher and proud breeder of Hereford cattle, his farm is located in Rio Grande do Sul, and it sits right on the banks of a river that divides his country from Uruguay. "We are living in the pampa," he admits in an interview with Bichos de Campo. But no matter how hard he tries to hide it, Silveira Pereira is more Brazilian than feijoada. And in fact, he is one of the top representatives of his country's agriculture. He currently holds the vice presidency of the powerful National Confederation of Agriculture (CNA), the agricultural organization that has kept the neighboring country from straying from its main obsession over the past thirty years, whether it is under the Lula government or the Bolsonaro government. Brazilian producers want to become "the greatest" food exporters in the world. And Gedeão exudes that spirit. -Here in Argentina, ...

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