Romeu Zema: I was there several times; to this day the city suffers the consequences of that tragedy, since everyone lost a friend, lost an acquaintance, lost some loved one.
Romeu Zema: But we tried, Lorenzo, to do what was possible to ease that human suffering.
and also to punish the company that caused that tragedy.
Romeu Zema: And on that occasion, we imposed the largest penalty applied in Brazil up to that time, in the amount of 37 billion reais, and all of that sum has been used either to compensate the victims, those affected, or... for works to compensate the people of Minas who suffered so much.
Romeu Zema: But perhaps the greatest advance, Lorenzo, was in the change in legislation that we promoted, so that that type of tragedy never happens again in Minas Gerais.