Podcast deals with Lula’s gestures to agribusiness – Folha – 06/16/2023 – Podcasts

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) again said this Thursday (15) that agribusiness has an “ideological” problem with the government — not an economic one. “I don’t care if the rural producer likes me or not. What is at stake is for us to recover the productive capacity of this country”, said the petista, in an interview with radio stations in Goiás.

The speech comes after the first nods made by Lula to agribusiness, when he spoke at the opening of the Bahia Farm Show, one of the main events in the sector in the country, and encouraged Brazilians to throw “hate in the trash can”. The president also promised to launch a turbocharged Safra Plan this year, to be announced in the coming weeks.

On Tuesday (13), in the first live of his term, Lula made yet another nod, saying that agrarian reform in Brazil can be carried out without land invasion — something that can also be read as a message to the MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra), a historic ally of the PT that in April intensified the climate in the countryside with a series of occupations.

The attempt to pacify the agro is also given the weight of the government’s recent defeats in Congress, many sponsored by the ruralist caucus. Most of the sector identifies with the opposition and supported Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in the last election.

This Friday’s Breakfast (16th) deals with Lula’s gestures to agribusiness. The reporter from Sheet in Brasília Thiago Resende explains the government’s political calculations in relation to the sector and analyzes their repercussions.

The audio program is published on Spotify, streaming service partner of Sheet in the initiative and which specializes in music, podcast and video. You can listen to the episode by clicking above. To access the application, just register for free.

Breakfast is published from Monday to Friday, always at the beginning of the day. The episode is presented by journalists Gustavo Simon and Magê Flores, with production by Carolina Moraes, Laila Mouallem and Priscila Camazano. Sound editing is by Thomé Granemann.