Jair Bolsonaro left the regional summit on the Amazon on "medical recommendation"

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has canceled his participation in a regional meeting on the crisis of the fires in the Amazon scheduled for next Friday in Leticia, Colombia, on "medical recommendation" before your surgery.

"The president must follow a liquid diet from Friday, two days before a abdominal surgeryand this makes your trip practically impossible, "said spokesman Otávio Rego Barros.

In addition, he added that the government is studying the sending of a "substitute" or even the report of the summit in the city located on the Amazon River, on the tripartite border between Colombia, Peru and Brazil.

The summit was proposed by Peru and Colombia on August 27, after a resounding international alarm triggered by fires in the Amazon, the largest rainforest on the planet, whose territory extends over nine countries. ;Latin America.

In Brazil, which hosts the largest part, from January to Sunday afternoon, the INPE satellites (official body) represented 91,891 projectors, 1,390 more than yesterday, a record since 2010 for this period. 52% of the total was recorded in the Amazon region

Although doctors believe that Bolsonaro must rest for 10 days after the operation, the president said Monday that he would appear before the UN General Assembly on Sept. 24. "even in a wheelchair" to defend Brazil's position on the Amazon.

Bolsonaro, which supports mining in indigenous reserves and protected areas, considers the action of NGOs and the interest of European countries for the preservation of the forest as an interference threatening the sovereignty of Brazil .