Brazilian President
Criticizes Oil Spill In Gulf of Mexico
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday slammed the
huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a
scandal of the developed world.
NASA MODIS satellite image, taken May 23,
2010, of the Gulf of Mexico shows the extent
of the oil released from the Deepwater
Horizon spill. The oil can be seen as a
sheen on the water surface. BP was weighing
whether to stick with the tricky "top kill"
maneuver or try something else to plug the
gushing well that has caused the worst oil
spill in U.S. history, its chief operating
officer Doug Suttles said on May 29, 2010.
(Reuters Photo)
"I find it funny the way the Western press
report the disaster," he said.
"If the disaster was made by Brazilian oil
company Petrobras in the Guanabara Bay, the
developed world would have used it against
us," he said in a public speech here to
applause.
The oil spill occurred after British oil
giant BP Plc's Deepwater Horizon platform
exploded in April. So far, an estimated 18
million to 40 million barrels of crude have
gushed into the ocean and hopes of plugging
the damaged oil well soon seem slim.
Oil has already reached the southern coast
of the United States and the environmental
damage and financial impact have yet to be
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