Argentina has confirmed the sending of aid to fight fires in the Amazon

The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, today announced the dispatch of brigadists, helicopters and logistics to help control fires in the regions of Brazil and Bolivia in the Amazon.

"We are coordinating this solidarity badistance to the two countries of all Argentines," said the national leader at the end of the Cabinet meeting led by President Mauricio Macri at the government's headquarters.

Brazil has deployed the Hercules C-130 aircraft as part of a major military operation aimed at extinguishing fires that devour part of the Amazon. New measures are announced and, according to the National Institute of Space Research of Brazil, most are taking place in the Amazon basin.

Chancellor, Jorge Faurie, said today in the morning that he had proposed in Brazil to send 200 brigades "to intervene in the outbreaks in which (the Brazilian government) understood that we can to be useful to them ".

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The help of G7

The G7 has decided to mobilize immediate aid of $ 20 million to fight the fires that have hit the Amazon, announced today French President Emmanuel Macron.

It is a first step of the plan in collaboration with the affected countries so that this region has the necessary means "now that it takes more", said the French president at a press conference with his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera.

Macron said France – which is also an Amazonian country for its overseas territory in French Guiana – will offer military means for fire control in the region, according to the EFE news agency.

"We will offer financial support of about $ 20 million.The next month we will build an initiative for the Amazon officially presented to the United Nations General Assembly with all the countries of the region, "he said.

Mr Piñera, meanwhile, declared himself "very happy" with the agreement reached with the most industrialized democracies and with the Amazonian countries to fight fires and recalled that the strengthening of cooperation in the Amazon is now indispensable.

The second stage, in front of the United Nations General Assembly, will have the collaboration of Chile to launch the process of reforestation, "in the respect of the sovereignty, but by cooperating to take better care of the" biodiversity ".