# Brazil president calls Amazon oil a ‘passport to the future’

https://mins.news/en/item/24984

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-18 10:08 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/18/brazils-president-says-amazon-oil-is-passport-to-the?traffic_source=rss

> 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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