Brazil: We will not import rice from Venezuela

By Cleiton Evandro dos Santos, market analyst and editor of the magazine and website Planeta Arroz At the end of last week, and this gained prominence in the national press, the President of the Republic, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, addressed the inherent issues without the best information the rise in consumer rice prices, which has been occurring for market reasons since the beginning of the pandemic. It was a superficial approach. According to the president, the federal government had “faltered” by not having imported rice from Venezuela, possibly at the turn of the year, because it believed that with the arrival of the harvest consumer prices would fall, which did not happen. Anyone who follows the regular editions of Planeta Arroz - printed or digital -, the newsletter and daily updates on the website www.planetaarroz.com.br knows that the president was deeply mistaken for not being clear and, mainly, when referring to rice specifically. Estadão records that: “the president ...