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FILE - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the inauguration ceremony for the new president of the state-run oil company Petrobras, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)

Lula calls oil near the Amazon River a passport to Brazil’s future after Petrobras strikes new find

By Gabriela Sá Pessoa - Associated Press

Edervan Forte dos Santos, from the Galibi Kali'na community, steers his boat toward mangroves in the biodiversity conservation area of Cabo Orange, in Oiapoque, Amapa state, Brazil, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

‘I’m going there.’ Oil drilling fuels a migrant surge in isolated city in Brazil’s Amazon

By Gabriela Sá Pessoa - Associated Press

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a group photo at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Brazil’s Lula takes heat on oil plans at U.N. climate talks, turnaround after hero status last year

By Peter Prengaman and Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

Capuava oil refinery owned by Petrobras sits in Maui, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Petrobras specializes in deep water exploration, drilling and extraction. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Oil companies attending climate talks have minimal green energy transition plans, AP analysis finds

By Mary Katherine Wildeman, Peter Prengaman and Doug Glass - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2020 file photo, Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives for a meeting with the Italian Cgil union, in Rome. Prosecutors in Brazil’s sprawling Car Wash corruption investigation on Monday, Sept. 24, charged former the former President with money laundering, less than a year after the country’s top court ordered him freed from jail while he appealed his conviction in another case. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Brazil justice annuls Lula’s sentences, enabling 2022 run

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a ceremony to present the government's agenda to the newly elected mayors, at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Petrobras calls meeting to elect Bolsonaro ally

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, accompanied by Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo, left, arrives to attend a ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Air Force, at the Air Base headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro taps general to head state-run oil giant

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 23, 2017 file photo, masks representing corrupt politicians line the lawn outside the National Congress building, in Brasilia, Brazil. A prominent task force of Brazilian prosecutors was officially disbanded Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, marking the symbolic end of “Car Wash” investigative unit initially praised for tackling impunity among the nation’s political and business elite but lately under fire for allegations of bias in its probes. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s anti-corruption ‘Car Wash’ task force ends in gloom

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

US firm pleads guilty to paying bribes in Brazil, Venezuela

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Oil workers march during a protest against layoffs at state oil company Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. Brazilian oil workers and oil giant Petrobras were locked in a power struggle Tuesday over the company's privatization plans, with the union saying thousands of employees are on an indefinite strike. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil oil workers clash with Petrobras in 18-day strike

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazil police search Maersk offices in corruption probe

By MARCELO DE SOUSA and JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

UK anti-fraud agency investigating commodities firm Glencore

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A supporter of Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds up a mask of Da Silva outside the Federal Police headquarters where the former leader is imprisoned in Curitiba, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Da Silva's lawyers have begun legal procedures requesting his release from prison, following a Supreme Court decision late Thursday that a person can be imprisoned only after all appeals to higher courts have been exhausted. Da Silva has been detained since April 2018 after being convicted of corruption. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

AP Explains: Brazil court decision may free Lula da Silva

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

A representative of the Petroleo Brasileiro SA holds up an envelope containing the oil company's bid for the Buzios oil field, during an oil auction in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Brazil is holding one of the world's biggest-ever oil auctions, with oil majors bidding on fields currently operated by state-run Petrobras. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Brazil’s oil tender yields $17 billion, falls short of hopes

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

FILE - This April 12, 2018 file photo, shows the Odebrecht headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Swiss prosecutors filed on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, their first indictment in investigations related to the Brazilian construction company and state-run oil giant Petrobras, charging a suspect with complicity in the bribery of foreign public officials and with money laundering. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Swiss file their 1st charges in Petrobras-Odebrecht scandal

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Oil spills reach more than 100 regions of Brazil’s coast

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Chilean Michelle Bachelet listens to the media one year after she took office, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

Bachelet denied campaign took money from Brazil OAS company

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

A Port Authority officer points at the Bavand, one of two stranded Iranian vessels, anchored at the port in Paranagua, Brazil, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Brazil's top court says state oil company Petrobras must supply fuel to two Iranian vessels that have been stranded off the coast of Parana state since early June. Petrobras has been refusing to provide fuel to the two vessels, arguing that they appear on a U.S. sanctions list and that the company would risk significant fines. (AP Photo/Giuliano Gomes)

Brazilian court: Petrobras must supply fuel to Iranian ships

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Brazil’s Petrobras cedes control of fuel distributing unit

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Brazil’s state oil company denies fuel to 2 Iranian ships

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press