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Samara Martins: Dívida pública poderia acabar com a fome #Shorts
38 statements · 1 politicians · August 12, 2026 · 3 min
Statements by Samara Martins. 38 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Food Security, Monetary Policy, State public debt, Student Movements / Protests.
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About: ensure food security for families in vulnerable situations
serious, and if severe food insecurity isn't hunger, it's just a nice-sounding name to be able to say it no longer exists.
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About: ensure food security for families in vulnerable situations
But it exists; someone who experiences food insecurity is a person who doesn't eat three meals a day, who doesn't get all the nutrients needed to survive.
About: ensure food security for families in vulnerable situations
Food shouldn't even be a commodity, because it's a basic necessity for existence.
How do you exist without eating?
About: ensure food security for families in vulnerable situations
So it should be a right: the right to food.
About: ensure food security for families in vulnerable situations
You shouldn't have to buy it.
About: promote policies that reduce the commodification of food
But we've normalized the capitalist process so much that we think we have to pay to eat.
But it's basic for you... You won't be able to choose not to eat.
Like, ah, I'll choose to buy this cap or not buy this cap.
Eating, no — you need to eat.
It's necessary for you to exist.
About: ensure food security for families in vulnerable situations
So it shouldn't even be commercialized.
But let's get back to our reasoning.
- Neutral
About: renegotiate precatórios installments to enable social programs
Using those 5.8 billion per day from the public debt, we would have 6,100,000 basic food baskets per day.
6 million basic food baskets, at a value of about R$ 950, which is the most expensive in Brazil, which is there in São Paulo, the basic food basket.
- Neutral
About: ensure food security for families in vulnerable situations
And I told you all, food insecurity in Brazil is 6.4 million.
About: allocate public debt resources to food security programs
So, every day, someone who suffers from severe food insecurity could receive a basic food basket.
And we don't even need a basic food basket every day.
- Neutral
About: renegotiate precatórios installments to enable social programs
So, to put it in perspective, because when we say that 1.8 trillion of the 2026 budget goes to debt payments, it's not very clear, because we don't deal with trillions, right?
It's very far from our reality.
We, at most, receive R$ 1,621.
It doesn't go much beyond that; that's the basis of our salary.
So, 'trillions' feels very abstract.
About: renegotiate precatórios installments to enable social programs
But when we take this and do a... quick calculation, you see that it's a lot of money that could be invested in people's well-being.
Desconhecido
So, in this emergency plan to suspend the debt, do you think in one year you solve all of Brazil's structural problems just with that move?
Very possible.
Very possible.
About: promote street demonstrations to pressure the political class
Of course not without a struggle.
About: promote street demonstrations to pressure the political class
Not without struggle, without popular mobilization, because it's the other class.
They won't accept it calmly.
They won't say like, oh, fine, no problem.
About: reverse privatizations and ensure public control over essential resources and services
Also because you have to take control of these things out of their hands.
- Neutral
About: reverse privatizations and ensure public control over essential resources and services
Because, for example, regarding our food, the production chain is not in the hands of the government.
- Neutral
About: reverse privatizations and ensure public control over essential resources and services
And with privatizations, we keep placing more control in the hands of companies.
Yesterday we were very upset with Norway.
That's true.
- Neutral
About: reform the operation of environmental enforcement agencies (ICMBio, Funai, Ibama)
But there's something we should be even more upset about with Norway, because I don't know if you remember, in 2018 there was one of the biggest environmental disasters there in Pará, in Barca Arena.
- Neutral
About: reform the operation of environmental enforcement agencies (ICMBio, Funai, Ibama)
I went there too, at the beginning of June, I spoke with our pre-candidate there, who is herself a riverside dweller; it was one of the biggest environmental disasters...
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