After rejecting a $ 20 million G-7 bid on Monday, Brazil finally declared it "open" on Tuesday (August 27th) for financial aid from "foreign organizations and even countries" to fight fires in the Amazon. .

However, President Jair Bolsonaro raises his conditions. "The essential point is that this money, once entered Brazil, does not go against the Brazilian sovereignty and that the management of the funds is under our responsibility," said a spokesman for the presidency.

Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday morning conditioned the arrival of the G7 aid to the "withdrawal of (his) insults" by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, taking the part of the escalation in the violent controversy opposing Brazil and France. "At first he called me a liar and then, according to my information, he said that our sovereignty over the Amazon was an open question," said Jair Bolsonaro before meeting with the governors of the nine states. Amazon.

Non-negotiable sovereignty

For this former captain of the army, climateosceptic assumed, the sovereignty of Brazil on its 60% of Amazon, which he calls "our Amazon", is not negotiable. Governors supported Tuesday the president on the issue of sovereignty, while calling for international aid for the Amazon.

On the last day of the G7 summit in Biarritz (south-west France), Emmanuel Macron had questioned the advisability of conferring an international status on the Amazon rainforest, in case the leaders of the region take harmful decisions. for the planet.

Tuesday, General Augusto Heleno, an important member of the government as chief of the security services, fired this "France who has no lesson to give anyone" because "everywhere (the French) are gone, they left a trail of destruction, confusion and misery. "

#PardonBrigitte

Monday Emmanuel Macron had described as "extraordinarily disrespectful remarks about (his) wife" a comment of Jair Bolsonaro to a post on Facebook. Interviewed on Tuesday, Jair Bolsonaro confirmed having put himself the comment endorsing this post which showed Brigitte Macron on a very disadvantageous picture. But he refused to address a "family issue" and threatened to cut short his meeting with the journalists if they insisted.

The Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho apologized to France after the attacks of Jair Bolsonaro, as many Internet users in Brazil, who expressed their shame, under the keyword #DisculpaBrigitte (Pardon, Brigitte).

To the French people pic.twitter.com/MWGG1koMbx

Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) August 26, 2019

On the ground, fires went on Monday, denying Jair Bolsonaro's claims. Some 1,659 new fire starts were recorded in Brazil by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in 24 hours, more than half in the Amazon.

Emergency meeting on September 6th

In Porto Velho, the capital of the Amazonian state of Rondônia, a little rain has dissipated fumes, which led many people to consult for breathing difficulties.

Nearly 2,500 men and fifteen planes, including two C-130 Hercules water bombers were mobilized in the Amazon against these fires also seriously affecting Bolivia border President Evo Morales, who accepted international aid. The latter on Tuesday greeted the G7 emergency aid, while qualifying the contribution of "tiny".

Peru and Colombia have proposed to the countries of the Amazon region an emergency meeting on 6 September to coordinate measures to protect the largest tropical forest in the world, which besides Brazil and these two countries also extends to Bolivia , Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.

With AFP