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Government to resume construction of refinery at the Abreu e Lima plant in Pernambuco
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Brazil took an important step towards energy sovereignty this week, announcing it will restart an important project that was nearly destroyed by operation car wash. Our reporter Brian Mier has more details. teleSUR
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Brazil took an important step towards energy sovereignty this week, announcing it will
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restart an important project that was nearly destroyed by Operation Car Wash.
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Our reporter Brian Meyer has more.
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The Brazilian government has announced a $17 billion investment to resume construction
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of a second refinery at the Abreu e Lima plant in Pernambuco, with the goal of increasing
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Brazil's diesel production by 40% and generating 30,000 jobs.
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Construction was halted in 2017 as part of the Michel Temer administration's policy
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of dismantling the national petroleum company Petrobras.
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This dream is only coming true, comrades, because of a lot of fighting.
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It was the workers who held protests, work stoppages and strikes.
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President Lula, in fact, in fact, we held the second largest strike in petroleum workers'
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history in 2020.
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When we occupied Petrobras' headquarters and paralyzed our activities for 21 days,
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during the previous anti-democratic and fascist government.
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In 2017, after a few executives were convicted of corruption as part of the now disgraced
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Operation Car Wash investigation, instead of treating Petrobras as too big to fail,
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which is what countries in the global north do in similar situations, the government began
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dismantling the company.
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Tens of thousands of workers were laid off and Brazil lost its self-sufficiency in energy
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production.
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Consequently, Brazil now imports $11 billion a year in gas and diesel from the United States.
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Everything that happened in this country was caused by collusion between some judges and
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public prosecutors who were subordinated to the Department of Justice of the United States,
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which never accepted the idea of Brazil having a company like Petrobras.
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Profits from the new refinery are expected to fully pay back the investment costs in
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18 months.
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Brian Mier, Tel Assur, Pernambuco.
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