Brazil: soon 7 million cars to ethanol

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Brazil will reach the record number of seven million cars known as “flex fuel” manufactured, rolling as well to the gasoline as to ethanol, Monday the Association of the manufacturers of cars (Anfavea) indicated.

Admittedly, certainly, but there is however a large, large other side of the coin if I dare to express myself thus… Nearly seven thousand people, victims of the forced labor in fields of cane with sugar of Brazil, were released by the factory inspectorate of 2003 to 2008, denounced Monday the Catholic church.

According to a spokesperson of Anfavea, this figure of cars flex fuel will be reached in December, according to the rate/rhythm of production, without one not being able to specify the exact day.

This result was announced the day of opening of an International Conference on the biocarburants in Sao Paulo which wants to promote Brazilian ethanol, product starting from cane with sugar, like a clean and durable energy source.
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The year spent, Brazilian industry sold 2 million cars flex fuel (85,6% of the total of the registrations) against only 48.000 (4% of the total) in 2003.

According to the forecasts, more half of the Brazilian cars (52%) will be equipped in 2013 with technology flex, that is to say four times more than in 2007 (13%).

But a large shade comes to blacken this somewhat idyllic table…

According to the Pastoral one of Earth (CPT), “according to figures of the government, January 2003 to October 2008,6.779 people who worked under conditions similar to those of slavery, were released in cane-plantations” of all the country and mid-west in particular.

The Church underlined the “brutal growth” of the cases of forced labor recorded in the sector of ethanol and sugar where the number of released workers passed from 1.605 over one three years period (2003 to 2006) to 3.060 for only year 2007 and 2.114 for the first ten months of 2008.

Andre Amado, chief of the department of the Energy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was said “made indignant” by “the denigration” campaign against the Brazilian production of biocarburants.

“What is scandalous, it is that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs minimizes the action courageous and independent carried out not other members of the government” and does not react “officially”, underlines the pastoral one.

“It is impossible to promote the comparative advantages of sugar and from Brazilian ethanol on the international market without taking account of the costs”, like the fact that the cutters of cane are obliged to work until exhaustion under the pressure of an unrestrained race to the productivity, the Pastoral one concludes from the ground.