Macri offered his help to Bolsonaro for the Amazon …

The forest fires triggered in the Amazon have moved everyone. In the midst of statements by prominent state leaders and ecologists who have publicly criticized Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's policy of allowing deforestation indiscriminately, President Mauricio Macri has proposed to the Argentine "emergency system" to help contain the fire. On social networks, users recalled that a few years ago, in the middle of the fire season, the former Environment Minister, Sergio Bergman, became secretary, said "The most useful thing we can do is pray".

The president offered his collaboration via Twitter. He said he was "alarmed and moved" by what was happening in the Brazilian Amazon and that is why Bolsonaro put "our emergency system" at disposal.

"I am alarmed and moved by the fires in the Brazilian Amazon, the devastating fires in the main oxygen reserve in the region have hurt us, we are worried and make our cooperation urgent," Macri writes in his social networks.

The environmental disaster in the Amazon began on August 10 and covers about 500,000 hectares of Brazilian virgin forest. The fire has already spread to the Paraguayan Chaco, which is part of Bolivia, Uruguay and Peru. According to the NGO World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) "due to deforestation, the Amazon rainforest in Brazilian territory loses an area equivalent to more than three football pitches per minute. "

But the President's message, which has been criticized, is the second that has put resources at the disposal of Argentina to put out the fire. "Our emergency system is available in Brazil and Bolivia, and I have also contacted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to closely monitor emergency management and we are determined to help our neighbors fight against forest fires, "shared Macri.

The answers did not take long. In social networks, users remembered that Minister Bergman recommended praying for forest fires to increase in 2016.

"For the next summer, the most useful thing we can do is pray," said the head of the macrista during his first year as minister, in the midst of a fire season that affected vast areas of national parks. "I do not see in the short term that we have the scale of what we need for next summer," he added.

Many responded to the president's tweet with Minister Bergman's picture disguised as a plant. This happened in 2017, when Córdoba was experiencing dramatic hordes due to the progression of forest fires. On this occasion, the Minister decided to go to a public event disguised as a vertical garden as part of an environmental awareness campaign. "I am a man who works for a green Argentina," said the rabbi at that time.

This time, Bergman did not say anything about the serious situation in the Amazon. He only responded to messages shared by Macri.