Amazonas: Bolsonaro missed an alert three days before …

The government of Jair Bolsonaro has omitted an alert regarding possible fires in the Amazon presented three days before the fire. which consumes vast territories of this region. The data revealing this fact was the appearance of an official document of the Federal Public Ministry dated August 7 and sent to the Brazilian Institute of the Environment (Ibama), according to which a group of rural producers would begin to "burn" in the Novo Progresso area of ​​Pará Department.

The burning would be part of a demonstration in favor of loosening environmental legislation that the Bolsonaro government had been encouraging. promote deforestation in this region, as well as the lifting of the sanctions of the companies that specify them.

The fires would begin on the coast of the BR-163 road, which connects Pará with the ports of the Tapajos River and the state of Mato Grosso. For this reason, the public prosecutor cautioned against "serious environmental violations" that this could lead to and asked the federal government for an emergency plan to prevent this from happening to seniors.

The information was published by the magazine portal Rural Globe, which includes a facsimile of the letter in which the federal prosecutor's office in Pará says that he learned the beginning of the fire that began to be burned through a newspaper article in which producers were anticipating this form of protest on August 10th.

The warning note was dated August 7, three days before the protest. On the 12th, the Ministry of Environment, through Ibama, responded. He informed that letters had been sent requesting the support of the security forces, but said that there had been no response to this request.

Sixteen days after this and before the publication of the situation in the press, the Brazilian executive power has expressed itself in this regard and through social networks. The Minister of Justice, Sergio Moro stated that Bolsonaro had contacted him to obtain this information and "requested a rigorous audit".

"The federal police, with their experience, will determine the fact. The arson in the Amazon will be severely punished, "he added.