The president has been misinformed and worse advised. The times lead us towards a strong and irresistible regional integration, in which the production processes invite the vanishing of borders for the benefit of the population, providing access to goods and services at affordable costs. Wasting time in seeing how we disconnect from the mechanisms that integrate companies, industries and commercial conglomerates, as part of cross-border processes, will only delay our adaptation to an overwhelming reality. In sight, we have an urgent need to regionally integrate the chains that the pandemic broke or deteriorated.
We must not confuse the demonized globalization with regional trade integration. It will be the evident cheapening of some merchandise, particularly food, which will allow us to overcome atavisms that politicians propagate selfishly, seeking to control access to certain satisfiers that gain electoral support or that make a difference in electoral processes.
The Federal Executive has locked itself into a false debate, postulating that we should aspire to self-sufficiency, while opening borders for food, fertilizers and farm implements to enter the country. You are concerned about inflation. He veiledly thinks that, by disorderly opening the borders, he attacks and punishes those who sell these products here, without realizing that this is making our business community a victim of unfair practices, which result in the affectation of the national productive apparatus, inevitably favoring local shortages, and with it, rising prices of what is produced here. In addition, health risks are unjustly underestimated and investment in sectors in which political interests cause unfair distortions is discouraged.
The measures that have been adopted to import meat, fertilizers, corn and other products related to the field affect it, weakening the producers. They were used because, in the very short term, they make it possible to hide structural problems. In the long run, vices are encouraged that tie the consumer to burdensome imports. The logic followed by proposing air cabotage is inspired by the same notion of hidden punishment for those who do not accommodate their strategies to the official narrative, but, clearly, this measure would put an end to the national airlines, which have just faced difficult times; an important market and source of income abroad would be handed over, without reason.