Protesters (click here) hold a Brazilian flag with "SOS" written on it during a demonstration in Sao Paulo on August 23 to demand more protection for the Amazon rainforest.
The Boisonaro regime is the extremist right wing of politics in Brazil. They want money and they don't expect sanctions from The West with Trump in DC. Boisonaro is an extremist and is refusing help from France, That should be of no surprise.
13 July 2019
By Anna Jean Kaiser
...Brazil’s telenovela (click here) powerhouse TV Globo: Aruanas. The series focuses on environmental journalists and activists in the country’s vast, forested interior, where 57 environmental defenders were killed in 2017....
...The largest caucus in Brazil’s congress – the ruralista bloc – represents agribusiness interests, and in January their longtime ally, Jair Bolsonaro, became president.
Since then, Bolsonaro has launched an unprecedented attack on environmental protections, eliminating the post of secretary on climate change and stripping the environment ministry of authority.
Bolsonaro argues that the environmental protections in the Amazon hinder economic development and has promised that “not one more centimeter” of land would be allocated to indigenous tribes.
Such rhetoric has emboldened loggers, ranchers and big business interests eager to make money in the Amazon. Deforestation rose 88% in June compared to the same time last year, 169 new pesticides have been approved for use this year and the minister of mines and energy said the government was planning to allow mining in indigenous reserves.
But the vast majority of Brazil’s people live in cities, and for many of them, the assault on the rainforest is a distant reality, said Marcos Nisti, the co-creator of Aruanas....
