The unusual reason why Bolsonaro will stop using a birome brand | Chronic

Crosses between president Jair Bolsonaro and his French pair Emmanuel Macron because of fires in the Amazon, they have reached an unusual limit: the Brazilian president has stopped using Bic pens because they are French.

Bolsonaro said last Thursday that "I would use Compactor pens, not Bic … because Bic is French".

The company's headquarters did not comment on the case on the grounds that its pens sold in Brazil are manufactured in Manaus, Amazonia.

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Brazilian and French heads of state in the spotlight a series of diplomatic clashes since Macron suggested that fires in the Amazon were a "international crisis", what Bolsonaro considered trying to undermine Brazil's sovereignty.