"Bolsonaro and his allies are responsible for the fire in the Amazon" | Chronic

The former president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, prisoner for corruption, said Friday that the president's businessmen allies Jair Bolsonaro They are responsible for fires in the Amazon rainforest.

"Bolsonaro said that it is the NGOs (nongovernmental organizations) that are burning the Amazon, but that it is the company that chose it that ignites the fire" Lula told the portal Brésil247, who interviewed him in the cell he occupies at the headquarters of the federal police in Curitiba, in the south of the country.

Bolsonaro initially accused the NGOs, but on Thursday night he acknowledged that the landowners, who were part of his electoral support, could have been the ones who created the major fireholes in the Amazonian meadows. .

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The leader of the Workers' Party, whose 8 years and 10 months imprisonment prevented him from participating in Bolsonaro's elections last year, criticized the "delivery" of the country that executes the government in the economic zone.

"These people must understand that they have not been elected owners of the country, they have been elected to govern and should not destroy the country, they can not go out to deliver the country."Lula said.

The former president also linked the operation Lava Jato who accused and condemned the relations between the former judge Sergio Moro, US Attorney General and US Department of Justice in investigations.

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According to Lula, Bolsonaro needs "Someone tells him to educate, that we need peace, a president can not think of anything other than to be the well-being of the people . "

Dilma RousseffPresident elected between 2011 and 2016, sacked in a political trial, accused Bolsonaro of carrying out a "crime against the country" with its policy of reducing controls and meeting environmental commitments.