I'm John Bacher. This is the New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College.

Brazil, the natural catastrophe of the flooding in Rio Grande du Sol, the southernmost

state of Brazil, now visits itself upon the world because the crop is damaged, very badly damaged. So are the livestock and the

farming. This is a heavily agricultural state, southernmost, and the flooding

has ebbed, but not so much that we can't see that the cleanup

looks impossible. Professor I just note this because in the coming weeks we're

going to see more evidence.

Not only did Brazil get badly damaged by those rains,

there's an article about Argentina being hit

all badly as well.

They've got to sell their crop as fast as possible, soy crop. So soy, and I understand rice dominates the economy of Rio Grande de Seoul. And then I saw a photograph and Reuters of what looked to be hundreds of vehicles

under water, buried underwater.

So they've lost an enormous amount of transportation facility and along with the homes and the cities of this country.

Your measure, you're reading these things now.

Is Brazil set back?

Is this a blow to the whole economy in Lula de Silva's governance?

Well, Brazil is very big country.

I mean, certainly there is a hit to the agricultural sector in Brazil,

you know, given that Rio Grande de Sil which is essentially in the the southernmost point of

Brazil where it borders Uruguay it accounts for something like 24% of the nation's pork production, 16% of the nation's poultry production,

among other things.

And so there have been, as I understand, significant losses of pigs and chickens and significant losses of the

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