Brazil hopes to add oil wealth to booming economy
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Brazil's energy company, Petrobras, inaugurated a new offshore platform on June 3 in Angra dos Reis. Brazil has located major offshore oil fields and plans to greatly increase production in the coming years. Ari Versiani/AFP/Getty Images |
Brazil Institute director Paulo Sotero weighs in on the future of Brazil's oil industry with NPR's Alan Greenblatt:
"Brazil is not just going to be an oil-exporting country," says Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. "That's not all it's going to do."

