Jeb Bush part of global trio touting ethanol

What do a former Florida governor, the powerful head of a hemispheric development bank and a former Brazilian agriculture minister have in common?

Jeb Bush, Inter American Development Bank chief Luis Alberto Moreno and Roberto Rodrigues, Brazil’s agriculture minister until 2006, have teamed up to form the Interamerican Ethanol Commission — a venture they hope will not only make Latin American farmers richer but unite countries around a feel-good theme.
The three spoke at a jam-packed Inter American Development Bank seminar on biofuels this week as part of a public relations campaign in favor of fuels made from renewable resources, like ethanol made from sugar cane, corn or other farm products.

The event was organized before Cuban leader Fidel Castro wrote two Granma newspaper editorials panning the U.S.-led ethanol push as a recipe for starving the world’s 3 billion poor people. But the food vs. fuel debate was clearly on everybody’s mind.

Miami Herald