Brazil’s Bolsonaro at UN: Defiant about fires burning in Amazon
Despite global outrage, President Jair Bolsonaro says international media has exaggerated problem of Amazon fires.
Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro used his platform at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to rebut his critics who say he is causing a global environmental catastrophe.
He instead said the Amazon was Brazil’s sovereign property and called the backlash against the fire a new form of colonialism.
Back home, opinion was divided over the president’s speech.
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Cuaiba, the capital of the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso.
Published On 25 Sep 2019