Laid-off worker of Comperj, Guedes, who is for 3 months without salary, is pictured at a room of the...
Laid-off worker of Comperj Eduardo de Moura Guedes, 49, who is for 3 months without salary, is pictured at a room of the Pousada do Trabalhador (Workers Inn), which closed down after the scandal involving Petrobras, on its last day of operations, in Itaborai March 31, 2015. For the 20 men hanging on at the Pousada do Trabalhador, a 600-bed boarding house on the dusty outskirts of this boom town northeast of Rio de Janeiro, the dream that Brazil's oil wealth would bring a better life was over. Their jobs at Comperj, a $15-billion oil refinery being built here in Itabora’ by state-run energy giant Petrobras, are gone, and their employer - a mid-sized engineering company - bankrupt. Picture taken on March 31, 2015. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes