Argentina will send aid to Brazil and Bolivia to fight fires in the Amazon – Telam

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 Cabinet headed by President Mauricio Macri at Government House at the end of the meeting.

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 ".