Brazil President Dilma Rousseff is battling to regain the trust of voters and global investors alike as the economy sinks and a corruption scandal deepens. On Tuesday she charted what she hopes is a path to recovery.

In an exclusive interview in the presidential palace in Brasilia, Rousseff said the recovery process at the state-run oil giant Petrobras would proceed by publishing a long-delayed audited financial statement by the end of April, and issued a strong denial that she knew about the bribery that has shaken the company she chaired from 2003 to 2010.