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Graça opens up: 'I'm licking my wounds'

Former Petrobras president Graça Foster reportedly revealed in a conversation with a close friend that she was hurt and "licking her wounds" from the unfolding investigations into the corruption scandal at the state-owned company, investigated by the Federal Police's Operation Lava Jato.

Rio de Janeiro- RJ- Brazil- 12/17/2014- The president of Petrobras, Graça Foster, stated this Thursday morning, December 17th, during a breakfast with journalists, that she is offering her resignation to Dilma. (Tomaz Silva/Agência Brasil) (Photo: Paulo Emílio)

247 - Former Petrobras president Graça Foster reportedly revealed in a conversation with a close friend that she was hurt and "licking her wounds" from the unfolding investigations into the corruption scandal at the state-owned company, investigated by the Federal Police's Operation Lava Jato.

According to the UOL's Esplanada column, Graça has been leading a discreet life with her husband in an apartment in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. She reportedly quoted former governor Leonel Brizola: "Brizola, my eternal leader, always said that (licking one's wounds) when he needed time after being deeply hurt," she said.

Veja here the published note.