What is at stake with the BNDES returning to lend to other countries

– Episode of the 15 Minutes podcast analyzes the risks of the BNDES resuming loans to neighboring countries.

President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) signaled that the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and Banco do Brasil will once again finance works and services in other countries. The novelty took many people by surprise and generated some negative reactions in the market, mainly due to the risks involved in this type of operation.

Especially because these loans to Latin American “friends” were a hallmark of previous PT governments and resulted in a default of more than US$ 2 billion, in addition to involvement with companies investigated in Operation Lava-Jato. For this very reason, the distrust of this return is enormous — even more so at a time when the global economy is not at all favorable, which only increases the chances of Brazil not seeing this return.

On the other hand, there are those who see this policy as a way for the country to recover not only a regional protagonist, but also to position itself geopolitically in relation to China’s advances on the continent — a move that can be as advantageous in the future as it is risky.

And to understand everything that is at stake, the 15 Minutes podcast analyzes the current scenario and discusses the market’s reactions to the proposal. For that, I talk to Guilherme Grandi, economics reporter at Gazeta do Povo.

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