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After being criticized, the Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, called the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ) “Nhonho”, through a message he sent him tonight on social networks.
“Minister Ricardo Salles, not satisfied with destroying Brazil’s environment, has now decided to destroy the government itself,” Maia wrote in a post published on Saturday. Four days later, Salles’ ironic reply came. “Nhonho”.
The nickname is a reference to the character from the Mexican series “Chaves”, played by the actor. Edgar Live.
Earlier this week, Rodrigo Maia and the president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (DEM-AP), had already publicly criticized Ricardo Salles, after he asked the Chief Minister of the Presidency of the Republic, Luiz Eduardo Ramos, drop the position of “María Fofoca”, igniting the dispute between the ideological and military wing of the government.
The message came after a report by the newspaper O Globo said that Salles was “stretching the rope with the government’s military wing” and “testing the armor” with President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) to suspend the extinction actions. means. The report made no reference to the prime minister of the government secretariat.
Salles’s publication on social networks obtained the support of followers and allies of President Bolsonaro, such as federal deputy Carla Zambelli (PSL-SP) and her son Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL-SP). On the other hand, parliamentarians from the center came out to support Ramos, such as Senator Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI) and Deputy Marcelo Ramos (PL-AM).
Case locked?
After widespread unrest, Salles decided to apologize to Chief Minister Luiz Ramos, ending another dispute within Jair Bolsonaro’s government.
“I spoke with Minister Luiz Ramos, I apologized for the excess and put an end to it. We are together in government, for President Bolsonaro and Brazil. Good Sunday everyone,” he wrote on the occasion.
Soon after, Ramos also indicated, on social media, that he accepted Salles’s apology. “There is no fight,” Ramos said. “Look, there is a definition, a fight is when (there are) two people,” he said, and then said that he is not “fighting with anyone.
Salles’ leadership criticized
The advance of deforestation and fires in the Amazon region has placed the Bolsonaro government’s environmental policy at the center of criticism from foreign investors, ruralists and environmentalists, who pressure the government to respond against the destruction of the forest.
The president has minimized the crisis, and in a speech at the General Assembly of United Nations Organizations (UN), he attributed the spread of the fire to the “cabloco and the Indian” and said that there was a “brutal disinformation campaign” against Brazil.
In the first four months of this year, deforestation in the Amazon was a record with an increase of 55% over the same period in 2019.
Salles’ management was also criticized for the dismissal of officials from inspection posts of environmental agencies and the creation of regulations that make it difficult to pay fines for violations against the environment.
