Kim Kataguiri: When there is a price increase, the solution is to criminalize the price increase, which causes shortages, which causes smuggling, which strengthens organized crime.
Kim Kataguiri: I'm eager to see the little people with the little star going to inspect the stations, the distributors or Petrobras itself, putting up signs "Lula's Inspector", to see if price control will work.
It's obvious that this has no economic effect; it's pure populism, pure demagoguery.
Kim Kataguiri: Look at what the text says: price increase in, quote, "supply crisis or relevant market instability".
Kim Kataguiri: Who will judge what is instability? Who will judge what is relevant in that market instability?