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

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Brazil's President Lula has emphasized the importance of oil exploration and rare-earth mining to the country's national sovereignty and economic development. Lula expressed that these resources should primarily benefit Brazil rather than foreign entities.

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…