Lula: If it had been in Brazil, there would have been a scandal
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- Politics and Government
- 06 / 02 / 2010
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lashed out at the powers and said that if Brazil had been responsible for oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico would have been cause for international outrage, with critics of the developed countries.
"Large countries, who knew everything, do not know to stop the oil spill," Lula said on breaking the system for removing a subsea well by the British company BP that affects the southern coasts of the United States.
Lula evaluated the spill "is making the biggest process of contamination of the available" during an act of Michelin in Rio de Janeiro.
"Amuses me how the press deals with this issue. Imagine if Petrobras. Imagine if in Guanabara Bay, the scandal that the developed world would have done against us.
Petrobras is considered the company with greatest ability in extracting oil from deep water.
In 2000 Guanabara Bay was affected by the oil spill connection Petrobras submarine that destroyed much of marine life and economic activity of fishermen, in the worst environmental tragedy Rio de Janeiro.
The statement on the spill in the Gulf of Mexico came in during the crack in the relationship between the U.S. and Brazil that Lula signed in agreement with Turkey and Iran over Iran's uranium enrichment to stop sanctions against Tehran by the Security Council of the UN.
(With information from ANSA)
Source. Cubadebate - May 31
Google translation. Revised by Walter Lippmann.
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