Bolsonaro continues to hit indigenous communities …

The attack of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro against indigenous communities and NGOs continues, while fires continue to spread in the Amazon. This confirms its policy of allowing the mining and agri-food industries in nature and environmental reserves. He also spoke again to European governments: "Europe has nothing to teach us about the preservation of the environment". And he announced that he would forgive police officers accused of having easily triggered lawsuits.

"My decision is not to give more land to indigenous peoples, those that have been illegally delineated will be examined, and indigenous peoples want to be part of society," he said. "Is there a lot of land for few natives and no lobby? What is the interest behind that?", Said Bolsonaro, again insisting on alleged environmental entities that use land indigenous beyond the interest of Brazilians. In this way, he again lodged a complaint against the policy of the indigenous reserves, which represent 14% of the national territory and are protected by the Constitution.

In the area of ​​firefighting, the police arrested an agricultural businessman accused of deforesting the forest in an environmental reserve of the Amazonian state of Pará, about 5,500 hectares in recent months. The businessman José Brasil de Oliveira of the company "Fazenda Ouro Verde" is accused of using youth gangs against agents of environmental organizations IBAMA and CMBIO, whose operational capacity has been reduced this year because of the economic adjustment undertaken by the government. The deforestation it caused is equivalent to 6,000 Maracaná stadiums located in the environmental protection zone of Sao Felix do Xingú, in the south of the state of Pará. According to the country's prosecutor's office, on August 10, Bolsonarist landowners celebrated the "Fire Day", setting fire to the fields and forests to protest the fines imposed by the agencies for the protection of the country. environment.

On August 28, images from the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) identified 28,104 fire sources, including 23% in conservation units and 4% on Aboriginal lands. During the same period in 2018, the number of burned land was 7,974.

Between Wednesday and Thursday, 2,300 new fires were detected, more than half in the Amazon. In the state of Rondonia, where efforts were initially made to extinguish the fire, 67 new fires were recorded Thursday, almost three times more than the day before. Thousands of soldiers and firefighters have been deployed since the weekend
to fight them, as well as two Hercules C-130s and other planes that are throwing water at the affected areas in the north of the country. In the face of increasing international pressure, Bolsonaro issued a decree on Thursday banning burning for 60 days throughout Brazil
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He also criticized the European countries again: "Europe together has nothing to teach us about the preservation of the environment," he told the press when he left the presidential residence in Brasilia . He criticized the operation of some Brazilian embbadies who have orders to reproduce the official version: "Some have not yet my portrait.See that some still believe in 'Lula Libre'. ", he said paraphrasing the opposition campaign to demand the release of the former president of the prisoners and whose release could be addressed in the coming days by the court.

Bolsonaro said he was expecting to receive help from Donald Trump in the coming hours. The US president received Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo and his deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the Brazilian president, who was appointed ambbadador to Washington. He also resumed dialogue with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, after stating that he would only talk with French President Emmanuel Macron.
when this is rectified on the concept of international sovereignty of the Amazon.

Bolsonaro accused Germany and France of trying to "buy" Brazil's sovereignty after the G7, a block uniting the major powers, offered $ 20 million in badistance to fight against the fire. Last week at the summit, Macron said the forest fires that devastate the Amazon and also affect Bolivia are an "international crisis". Bolsonaro responded by accusing Macron of having a "colonialist mentality".

To end a day full of announcements, the Brazilian president announced his intention to forgive at the end of the year police officers convicted of "easy crime" and other crimes. "Many police officers in Brazil have been convicted of media pressure. These people at the end of the year, God willing, will be forgiven. There are surprising names, people who have honored the uniform, who have defended the lives of others, "he told reporters.Mr Bolsonaro intends to send a project to Congress. "Legal Backbone" which would give police more freedom in their operations and shootings without the current protocol.