Amazonia and Covid, Bolsonaro at the UN absolves himself: “Victims of international institutions acting for obscure interests”

The fires in Amazonia are caused by indigenous people and farmers. They do it to “survive”. The disaster on Covid 19? It is the fault of the press that “sows panic” among the population during this health crisis and of the 27 governors of the states of Brazil, as well as the Federal Supreme Court for how they manage the pandemic.

Jair Bolsonaro absolves himself and strongly rejects the criticisms that have rained down on him for at least a year for the fires that destroyed the Amazon and that are now destroying the Pantanal, the southwestern part of the great rainforest. He does so during the opening speech of the 75th General Assembly of the United Nations, a privilege attributed to Brazil since 1955. “We are attacked by a brutal disinformation campaign”, he argues, with the support of “international institutions acting for interests dark “. The 137,000 victims and almost 5 million infections are the effects of “a health crisis affecting the whole world”. His government and he himself have done everything to oppose it. Both in management and in measures to support the population. No controversy with other institutions, no initiative that would contrast medical and scientific indications.

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Rather. “My government has launched numerous aid programs”, such as the minimum contribution for all of $ 1000 “(actually 100), and” has allocated 100 billion dollars “to fight Covid 19. The leader of the far right avoids saying that they are measures passed by Congress and not by the Presidency, but this is irrelevant. As he avoids admitting that during the coronavirus wave he systematically boycotted the containment measures and the same lockdowns that from time to time the governors of the States: A very hard battle on which in the end the Supreme had to intervene, establishing, with a sentence, that the measures should be applied and followed.

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If Brazil has paid and still pays a very high price in human lives and infections, the fault lies with others. As president, he repeats, he acted well and quickly. In pandemics and fires. Brazil, he says, “helped feed the world” during the first wave of Covid 19, respecting “the best environmental legislation on the planet”. He recalled that his country “has never exported so much” and “invested in technology” to curb crimes linked to ecology. If part of the Amazon is burning today, this depends on the “farmers and the local population who activate the fires to survive”, certainly not on the loggers at the service of landowners and ranchers looking for new spaces for intensive soy cultivation and grazing. the herds.

In short, the Pantanal suffers the same problems as California. Fires are “a consequence of high local temperatures”. The rainforest is humid, he added, “unlikely to burn with such intensity.” Furthermore, the lung of the world, “is guarded by our soldiers and by the appropriate structures. We are leaders in the conservation of tropical forests, we have energy matrices that are among the cleanest and most diverse in the world. We are responsible for only 3 percent of carbon emissions” .

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All good, then. His Brazil is doing its best. The criticisms that rain down on him are the result of an “obsessive and disinformation campaign”. Jair Bolsonaro acquits himself and goes straight. He is even convinced that he also has an essential role in the defense of Christianity. “The Brazilian people are conservative and Christian”, he reiterated, “and my government has fought against the spread of Christianophobia”.

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