Biofuels and the left – who’s right: Lula, Prodi, Castro or Chavez?

Brazil’s left-wing president Lula da Silva visits with Bush and signs a biofuel cooperation agreement, saying it will help in the fight against global poverty, increase energy security and help mitigate climate change. Fidel Castro lashes out and accuses Bush of promoting global hunger instead. Brazil replies respectfully that Castro ‘doesn’t really understand a thing about biofuels’. Senior Eurosocialist Romano Prodi for his part goes to Brazil to sign a pact for joint investments in biofuels in Africa, which, he says, will bring jobs, incomes and food security to some of the world’s poorest farmers. Venezuela’s supreme revolutionary and petroleum exporter Hugo Chavez meawhile builds 17 ethanol factories at home, and actively supports the construction of another 11 biofuel plants in… Cuba.
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