BRAZIL PERSPECTIVE

Brasilia watches Hormuz with the dread of an agricultural giant measuring its aerial vulnerability. Folha de São Paulo warns: the European Union will face a systemic aviation fuel shortage if the strait doesn't reopen by May. It's an economic angle that frames the Islamabad negotiations not as a diplomatic exercise but as a logistics race against time. Brazil, whose agricultural exports depend on international air and maritime freight, reads every day of Hormuz blockade as another day without guarantees that its soy and beef shipments will reach Asian and European markets.