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“We have just seen a great candidate for head of state say that if I don’t put out the fire in the Amazon, a trade barrier will be raised against Brazil. (…) Diplomacy alone is not enough. When you run out of saliva, you must have gunpowder. Otherwise it doesn’t work “, said the Brazilian head of state on Tuesday, Jair Bolsonaro, though not to mention directly the name of the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.
During the US election campaign, Biden, or his vice president, Kamala Harris harshly criticized the Current Brazilian policy for the Amazon, the largest tropical forest on the planet, which suffers the largest fires and deforestation in decades since Bolsonaro came to power in 2019.
The criticisms even came in the first debate between Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, in Right end of the electoral campaign, in which the candidate of the Democratic Party said that Brazil must “stop” the “destruction” of the Amazon, otherwise it would face “important economic consequences.”
“In that forest more carbon is absorbed than the United States emits. I will make sure that several countries get together and say [ao Brasil]: here is 20 billion dollars. Stop destroying the forest. And if you [Brasil] do not stop, then you will suffer important economic consequences “said the now president-elect of the United States, in a debate at the end of September.
Not last saturday, Biden was declared the winner of the US elections, defeating Republican Donald Trump, whose Bolsonaro he is an ally and a self-confessed admirer.
However, despite having already received praise from various heads of state for the victory in the suffrage, Joe Biden has not yet been congratulated by the Brazilian executive.
On Monday, Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourão said that Jair Bolsonaro awaits the end of the legal disputes to pronounce on the elections in the United States and the victory of the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden.
“I think the president is waiting for this mess of discussion to end there, if he has a false vote, if he does not have a false vote, to give his position (…) obvious that the President at the appropriate time transmit Brazil’s greeting to whoever is elected “Mourão told reporters.
The position of Bolsonaro regarding elections in the United States is similar to adopted Russia, China and also Latin American countries such as Mexico, which have chosen to wait for the outcome of the behavior Trials attempted by Republican candidate and outgoing President Donald Trump, who denounced alleged fraud in the voting process in the US presidential elections.
Bolsonaro throughout the United States electoral process expressed his preference for Trump’s re-election and maintained a critical tone against Biden after some statements by the now president-elect on the Amazon.
Between janeiro me September This year, the Brazilian Amazon recorded 76,030 fires, the highest number since 2010, when 102,409 fires were recorded in the same period, the Brazilian Institute for Space Research said.
I and deforestation The largest rainforest in the world reached more than seven thousand square kilometers in janeiro a September, an alarming figure, despite a 10% drop compared to the same period in 2019, the year in which all records were broken, according to the same public body.
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