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Brazil's Bolsonaro Says 'Worst is Yet to Come' on Oil Spill

Agence France-Presse

   SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Sunday that "the
   worst is yet to come" with an oil spill that has affected more than 200
   beaches on the country's coast.

   "What came so far and what was collected is a small amount of what was
   spilled," Bolsonaro said in an interview with Record television.

   He said he did not know if additional oil would impact his country's
   coastline, but that "everything indicates that the currents went to the
   coast of Brazil."

   Oil slicks have been appearing for three months off the coast of
   northeast Brazil and fouling beaches along a 2,000 kilometer (1,250
   mile) area of Brazil's most celebrated shoreline.

   Crews and volunteers have cleaned up tons of oil on the beaches.

   Officials say it not yet possible to quantify the environmental and
   economic damage from the oil slicks.

   The government on Friday named a Greek-flagged tanker as the prime
   suspect behind the oil slicks.

   The ship Bouboulina took on oil in Venezuela and was headed for
   Singapore, it said.

   The space agency Inpe said Friday there might still be oil at sea being
   pushed by currents and it could reach the states of Espiritu Santo and
   Rio de Janeiro in southeast Brazil.