PoliticsBrazil president calls Amazon oil a ‘passport to the future’

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised the discovery of oil off the Amazon coast despite environmentalist opposition to drilling there. He called the find a “passport to the country’s future” and said it would strengthen Brazil’s national sovereignty.

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