Lula on the resumption of the Transnordestina: "Important for Brazil and for the Northeast"

President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said this Tuesday, 2, in an interview with the program of TV Guararapes, from Pernambuco, that he has a "very great sadness" for not having inaugurated the Transnordestina until today. The railway is designed to connect the ports of Pecém (in Ceará) and Suape (in Pernambuco) to the Cerrado of Piauí and was a campaign promise. "I have a very great sadness for not having inaugurated the Transnordestina yet. I promised my old and dear companion Miguel Arraes, it was his request, that if I won the elections I would do the Transnordestina. It was supposed to be inaugurated in 2012, but with so much back and forth, suspension, process, and confusion, I held 31 meetings with Eduardo Campos (former governor of Pernambuco who died in 2014), Cid ...