OPEC Secretary-General’s Speech in Brazil Disrupted by Protester

Protesters amid oil outlook conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Photographer: Beatriz Amat/Bloomberg
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OPEC Secretary-General Haitham Al-Ghais’s speech in Brazil got off to a rough start after the power went out to the podium and a protester took to the stage.

Al-Ghais was speaking in perfect Portuguese about the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ oil outlook when the power failed. Then a woman raised a banner saying “Fair Energy Transition” and “Who Pays?” before she was swiftly escorted off the stage.