Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement worth tens of billions of dollars with the mining companies responsible for a 2015 dam collapse that was one of the country’s worst-ever environmental disasters.
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The toxic sludge — enough to fill 13,000 Olympic-size swimming pools — flowed down the Doce River for 420 miles to the Atlantic Ocean, contaminating waterways and coastal areas in two neighboring states.British killer nurse Lucy Letby loses appeal bid for attempted baby murder convictionThe mining companies told the federal government during negotiations that they had already paid 38 billion reais in reparations.
The London suit prompted the Brazilian Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, Luís Roberto Barroso, to personally seek Lula’s commitment to ensure parties reached an agreement domestically. Cristiano Sales, 42, was born and raised in Bento Rodrigues, one of the districts in the municipality of Mariana that was washed over by the sludge nine years ago. When he returned to the ruins of his house three months later, the only item he found was a jersey from his favorite soccer team, Cruzeiro.
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