Brazil votes to redistribute oil wealth more evenly

摘要

Brasilia—Brazil’s Congress finished voting early in the morning March 7 to overturn President Dilma Rousseff’s line-item veto of an oil royalties bill, a Congress spokeswoman said, meaning producing states Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Espirito Santo would lose billions from existing contracts. Lawmakers from producing states have vowed to contest the decision in the Supreme Court.