Resistance to Roberto Requião intensifies dispute over command of Itaipu, one of Brazil’s main energy generators

By Roger Pereira

When former governor and former senator Roberto Requião accepted the mission to join the PT party to run for governor of Paraná, guaranteeing a loyal and stable platform for then-presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, many allies of they took it for granted that, in return, Requião would have an important position in an eventual Lula administration.

That position, they bet, would be that of general manager of Itaipu Binacional, a state-owned hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil (Paraná state) and Paraguay.

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