The frontal attack on biofuels by some environmentalists and Greens in the European Parliament (see this column in bulletin 9414) has received political support of some substance, signed personally as it was by Fidel Castro. The “lider maximo” aggressively criticised the strategic agreement signed in March by the presidents of the United States and Brazil (on bioethanol and other biofuels), describing the project to transform food products - sugar cane, maize, rape, palm oil etc. - into...