BRAZIL: Election-year rhetoric against foreign land ownership is largely hot air

Although Brazil shelved plans to restrict foreign land ownership in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, President Lula rekindled this emotional debate by saying he was “worried” about the issue when he announced the government’s 2010/11 agricultural financing package on 7 June. Brazil’s Minister of Agrarian Development, Guilherme Cassel, then went a step further in an interview published last week with Sao Paulo daily Valor Economico in which he asserted that the Lula...

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