Biden, Macron, Trudeau and Johnson whip us all the time, says Bolsonaro

the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaroaffirmed that the leaders of the United States, Joe Biden; France, Emmanuel Macron; Canada, Justin Trudeau, and the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, are “whipping” Brazil “all the time” in relation to the Amazon.

“Macron, Biden, Trudeau, Boris, among others, are constantly whipping us,” saying “that we don’t know how to deal with the Amazon,” the far-right president complained in an interview on a YouTube channel released on Friday.

The head of state also thanked the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for defending Brazil’s sovereignty on this issue.

He insisted that Brazil is “an example to the world” in environmental preservation, despite the alarming rates of deforestation in the Amazon region, which have skyrocketed since he took office in January 2019, due in part to successive cuts. budgets to control the ecosystem.

Bolsonaro, a retired Army captain who defends the exploitation of Amazonian resources and mining in indigenous reserves, assured that this international pressure on his questioned environmental policy intends to leave Brazil “in the background” in the commodity market. cousins.

“The less merchandise on the market, the more valuable theirs are,” he said, later directly quoting “France, the United States and a little Australia.”

The disclosure of this interview coincided with the meeting that Bolsonaro had with tycoon Elon Musk in a hotel in the interior of the state of Sao Paulo, where they announced a plan to connect the most remote regions of the Amazon thanks to the owner’s satellite network. of Tesla and SpaceX.

“We count on Musk so that the Amazon is known by everyone in Brazil and the world, to show the exuberance of that region, how it is preserved and what harm those who spread lies about that region cause us,” Bolsonaro said next to the businessman. .

Source: Elcomercio

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