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Lula Urges BNDES to Restart Overseas Financing as Brazil, Mozambique Seal Nine Cooperation Deals

The push seeks to restore credit for Brazilian services exports after the Car Wash fallout sidelined such lines for years.

Overview

  • Speaking in Maputo during celebrations of Mozambique's 50 years of independence, Lula said Brazil is working to rebuild the bank's capacity to finance the internationalization of domestic companies.
  • He argued that no major country exports services without offering credit and cited Mozambique's needs for ports, roads, power plants, and transmission lines.
  • Mozambican President Daniel Chapo said he plans to use the Brazilian bank's know-how to structure a future national development bank.
  • The two governments signed nine cooperation agreements spanning research, agriculture, diplomatic training, microenterprise support, education, and health.
  • BNDES's export-financing line launched in 1998 was targeted by the Car Wash investigation and largely halted, and reactivation is being advocated as a policy objective rather than announced as an operational shift.