Brazil’s Lula Doubles Down On Oil And Rare Earths As Brazil’s Strategic Future

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has explicitly linked oil exploration and rare-earth mining to Brazil's national sovereignty, declaring that the country’s subsoil resources must be used to drive domestic industrialization rather than enrich foreign nations. Speaking at Petrobras’(NYSE:PBR) giant refinery, Refinaria de Paulínia (Replan), in São Paulo, Lula emphasized that Brazil must actively extract its natural resources in a bid to secure its geopolitical and economic future.  Defying foreign…