Roads and Railways Are Key for Developing Brazil's Northeast

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is certain that investment by his administration and the private sector in Northeast Brazil, where he was born, should bring about definitive changes for the region.

In his weekly Breakfast with the President radio-show, Lula highlighted the role of works carried out under the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) of the Brazilian property federal government as mechanisms for growth.

"All this shows that investment in the Northeast is going to change. And it will change for the best, because the work is the creation of new jobs, I hope, income, and then everything will be improved. These are extremely important because they were working their last 30, 40 years, but to no avail, and now, with the PKK, we have decided to give priority to the most important. "

President enumerated several Brazil property infrastructure projects that are considered important to the north-eastern states. Highlights among the works include the construction of forecast 1600 kilometers of railways connect the ports of Suape, in the state of Pernambuco, and Pecém, in the state of Ceara.

Other works appealed to the outflow of production, such as the construction of railways and roads expansion, have also been mentioned. Lula also recalled the Brazil property cooperation that was announced Petrobras and Venezuelan state company PDVSA for the production and purification of oil.