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Azúcar en el depósito (La Vanguardia)
Spanish original here (title: “Sugar in the deposit”); Portuguese translation here (title: Sugarcane and ethanol are becoming Brazil’s symbols”). As far as I know, no english version available. Sorry!
El país del carnaval, la samba, el fútbol, el café y la caipiriña tiene ya otro emblema por bandera: la caña de azúcar. Aunque los portugueses introdujeron este cultivo en el país hace ya más de 500 años, no ha sido hasta hace relativamente poco que ésta se ha convertido en la gran esperanza económica del país, gracias a su buen rendimiento para la producción de biocombustibles, concretamente etanol.
The journalist, Ms. Lorena Farràs Pérez, traced a quick glance on today’s Brazilian ethanol market. She has sensitive eyes in comparing other well-known Brazilian symbols: samba, soccer, coffee, caipirinha…. And, now, sugarcane. Nevertheless, she commited a small mistake right at the first paragraph by saying that sugar cane has been planted for over 500 years in Brazil — its culture in Brazil actually began in the 1530’s. Since her numbers will be outdated within a few months (as everything surrounding this growing ethanol market), I will make use of her mistake to trace a brief history about sugar cane in Brazil after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
