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Tuesday 4 February 2020

Brazil's government blasts Oscar-

nominated documentary-maker

Associated Press
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's
government criticized Os-
car-nominated filmmaker
Petra Costa on Monday af-
ter she once more labeled
far-right President Jair Bol-
sonaro a risk to the coun- In this Oct. 17, 2019 file photo, Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno
try's democracy. waves to supporters gathered at Independence square, from
Costa's documentary the government palace's balcony in Quito, Ecuador.
about the 2016 impeach- Associated Press
ment of former President
Dilma Rousseff, "The Edge Ecuador president
of Democracy," has been
praised by leftists and slammed for ugly
loathed by conservatives Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, and Paulo Skaf, president
of the Sao Paulo's Industries Federation, FIESP, arrive for a meet-
in the politically divided na- ing with Brazilian businessmen in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, Feb.
tion. 3, 2020. words about harassment
Ahead of the competition Associated Press
for the best documentary QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — it is harassment."
Oscar on Feb. 9, Costa ti-Brazil activist and tar- cized the 36-year-old Ecuador's President Lenín That prompted immedi-
spoke on PBS and once nished the country's image Costa's documentary. As Moreno has scrambled to ate outrage from women's
more accused Bolsonaro abroad with a series of fake fringe lawmaker, he was a apologize for comments rights activists and others.
of stimulating "farmers and news in an interview on staunch advocate of Rous- suggesting women tend Governing party congress-
loggers to invade indige- American television," the seff's removal and famous- to complain about sexual woman Soleda Buendía
nous reserves, burn and de- communication secretariat ly celebrated the man who harassment when it comes complained on Twitter that
forest the Amazon, which is for Brazil's presidency said tortured her during the from ugly people. Moreno "justifies and re-
already at a tipping point in a string of posts on Twit- country's military dictator- In a speech to investors produces violence against
in which it could become a ter, in both English and in ship during his vote in favor Friday in the port city of women. You can't joke
savanna." Portuguese. of her ouster. Guayaquil, Moreno said about harassmant, rape,
She also repeated her ac- "Without the slightest sense Costa did not immediately men were under threat of femicide, trafficking, sexual
cusation that the Brazilian of respect for her home- respond a request for com- being denounced for ha- exploitation.... Nothing jus-
president has attacked the land and for the Brazilian ment from The Associated rassment and added, "at tifies expressions that revic-
rights of minorities. Costa people, Petra said in an Press. times, with harassment, timize us!"
made similar statements unreasonable script that In the documentary, the they torment ugly people. The Women for Change
before she was nominated, the Amazon will become Brazilian director uses her "That is to say, that the ha- organization joined in: "It
but this time Brazil's gov- a savanna soon and that personal story to suggest rassment is when it comes is not that everything now
ernment chose to answer President Bolsonaro orders the abrupt end to 13 years from an ugly person," he looks to women like ha-
through an official social the murder of both African- of Workers' Party rule came added. "But if the person rassment, it is that to ma-
media channel. Americans and homosexu- along with a desire for an looks good according to chos like you it has never
"Filmmaker Petra Costa als," it added. autocracy similar to the the standards, they tend seemed bad to harass!"
played the role of an an- Bolsonaro has also criti- 1964-1985 dictatorship. q not to think necessarily that the group tweeted.q

Watchdog group says Guyana lost billions in Exxon oil deal

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN better for Exxon than Guy- sideration Guyana's status shore fields are estimated political party, Alliance for
Associated Press ana because such deals as a frontier hydrocarbon to contain more than 8 Change.
HAVANA (AP) — A natural- typically give national gov- province," the company billion barrels, one of the "The relationship between
resource watchdog group ernments 65 to 85 percent said Monday. "The conclu- world's largest reserves. Trotman, Hughes, and Exx-
alleges in a new report of revenues. sions are misleading in that The revenue is expected on should be investigated
that Guyana may have "A country with inade- they compare Guyana to transform the finances to determine the existence
lost as much as $55 billion quate schools, a declining deep water with mature of Guyana by generating or extent of any conflict of
in potential revenue by sugar industry, and crum- hydrocarbon producing an estimated $168 billion interest," the report said.
poorly negotiating a deal bling sea defenses that provinces which naturally over the life of the project, Neither man could im-
with Exxon Mobil to pump cannot protect it from ris- have evolved fiscal frame- 120 times the country's an- mediately be reached for
reserves that are expected ing sea levels deserves a works reflecting maturity nual budget. comment on the report.
to make the small South better deal," the group and lower risk profiles." Global Witness said it had Guyana is a relatively poor
American country into the says. Much of the area also is found no evidence of cor- nation of about 740,000
world's newest major oil Exxon said the report failed subject to a border dispute ruption in Guyana's 2016 people.
producer. to account for the risk the with Venezuela. deal with Exxon, but called It holds general elections
London- and Washington- oil giant assumed in explor- A Guyana government for closer scrutiny of the re- on March 2 and the op-
based Global Witness says ing the unproven deep spokesman said officials lationship between Natu- position People's Progres-
in the report released Mon- water area known as Sta- were reviewing the report ral Resources Minister Ra- sive Party has issued some
day that the 2016 deal giv- broek. and planned to issue a phael Trotman and Nigel statements indicating that
ing Guyana 52 percent "The conclusions drawn statement later Monday. Hughes, who has worked it will seek to renegotiate
of the revenue from oil are based on hypotheti- Exxon began shipping the as a lawyer for Exxon oil concessions, although
pumped from a massive cals and circular reasoning first tankers of Guyanese Trotman and Hughes are the specifics of its position
offshore oil block was far that do not take into con- oil this year and the off- leaders of a Guyanese remain unclear.q