(Opinion) Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently expressed his view that private companies should fully align with his administration’s development vision. This perspective particularly targeted Vale, a leading mining corporation, as the government sought to install an ally at its helm. Lula remarked in a Rede TV! interview, “Vale must not think it […]
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