Brazil's president is corrupt. China is equally as corrupt when it comes to their commitment to the Paris Accords. Both countries belong to the G20 which has recently met.
For some reason these two countries have the opinion growing crops for China is going to be better for Brazil than protecting the rainforest. There are people suffering now because of the fires. Does anyone realize how many species of plants and animals are being lost at this very moment from the agricultural purposing of the Amazon Rainforest?
There is only one reason why the Brazilian president washed his hands of fighting the fires and it is because he has other plans for the land. He was corruptly elected after an excellent President, freely elected was removed from office. She fought for a reason and it was the Amazon.
August 16, 2019
State, private buyers bought 25-30 cargoes in Brazil this week (click here)
China suspended U.S. purchases as the trade war drags on.
China is stepping up its soybean buying in Brazil as growers in Argentina continue to hoard and the Asian nation avoids American oilseed after an escalation in trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Private and state-owned companies bought 25 to 30 cargoes of soy from Brazil this week through Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the deals are private. That’s equivalent to about 1.5 million to 2 million metric tons and is helping push up the premiums buyers need to pay for soy at Brazilian ports....
11 July 2019
The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, (click here) has invited his son Eduardo to become ambassador to the United States, underscoring his family’s influential role in the country’s diplomacy and domestic politics.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, currently a federal congressman, told reporters he would accept the role if nominated. His father said earlier that the appointment would hinge on his son’s acceptance.
“If it is a mission given by the president, I would accept,” Eduardo told reporters, adding he was prepared to resign from Congress if the president appointed him.
He added that the ultimate nomination still depended on conversations with his father and the foreign minister Ernesto Araujo.
The appointment would need to be approved by the Senate foreign relations committee before passing to the full upper house for confirmation....
Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was railroaded out of her office. She fought back, but, she was not going to be allowed to remain in the way of deforestation and agriculture exploitation.
25 May 2012
By Jonathan Watts
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff (click here) has partially vetoed a bill that would have weakened her country's efforts to protect the Amazon and other forests. Environmentalists cautiously welcomed the last-minute decision, which came after the most closely watched political debate of the year in Brazil. But they warned that the battle was not yet over because large parts of the bill will still go through. Last month, legislators in both houses passed a set of revisions to the Forest Code that threatened permanent preservation areas – a key provision in Brazilian environmental legislation – that obliged farmers to keep a proportion of their land as protected forests, particularly on the fringes of rivers and hillsides. This requirement has long been opposed by Brazil's powerful agricultural lobby.,,,
