• Brazil.Jair Bolsonaro will agree to discuss G-7 help if Emmanuel Macron recants his "insults"
  • Controversy: The other attacks of Bolsonaro: from "take your pasta and reforest Germany, dear Merkel" to the "whales killed by Norway"

The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, says he is prepared to speak with the leaders of all the countries that want to help in the fires of the Amazon, except with the French president. "Any individual resource, from one country or another, we talk. Now, Macron, he wants to donate on behalf of the G7 and that is not true," he said today at the exit of the Palacio da Alvorada de Brasilia.

Bolsonaro also confirmed that this afternoon (at 8:00 p.m. European) he will keep a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "She started with a tone ..., then she went back to normal. I am prepared to speak with anyone, except our dear Mr. Macron, unless she recants our sovereignty of the Amazon," he explained, insisting on the pulse which he maintains with the French president after he urgently included the fires of the Brazilian Amazon in the G7 agenda, during his summit last weekend in Biarritz.

Previously, the Brazilian president had had a clash with Germany, after it paralyzed the contributions both to the Amazon Fund - the body led by Norway since 2008 prevents deforestation of the largest rainforest on the planet - as well as other environmental preservation projects, as a result of the Brazilian Government terminating unilaterally from the agencies that control it. Then, he snapped at the chancellor: "Dear Merkel, take your pasta and reforest Germany." Today he has not objected to Berlin taking up his donations.

"I have no problem. Now, we want to know where that pasta goes. Generally, it goes partly to oenegeros, and it has no return. In part it goes for good things, for material, etc. But it is a lot of pasta for little preservation. ", he specified without concealing the visceral hatred he feels for NGOs, whom he initially accused of being behind the fires in the Amazon, 75% more than last year.

But when the press insisted on the words he had dedicated to the chancellor, he replied: "Do you want to complicate it now, eh, uncle? She wants to go out with me, and you want to complicate it . It's not just Germany, it's Europe all together, no they have lessons to give us in regards to the preservation of the environment, "he added, as quoted by Globo.

United States help

The former military also said there could be some news from the United States, where his son Eduardo, who chairs the congressional Foreign Commission, and Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo, have traveled to meet with President Trump at the House White. "I asked Trump to help us. And he has said that (the United States) could not make a decision without hearing Brazil. Brazil is a friend of all the world, and I am a diplomat, they are a person willing to dialogue."

Not the same, however, former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, jailed for corruption since 2018 in the federal police prison in Curitiva. "In relations between countries you cannot insult as Trump or Bolsonaro do. Brazil needs friends like France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States and China. And they need us too," the historical leader of the Workers Party told the BBC .

But if there is no relationship between the current Brazilian Government and those countries, it is, "because (President Bolsonaro) is ideologically guided by people who do not believe the Earth is round . It does not have the slightest notion of international geopolitics." Therefore, says Lula, "Bolsonaro is doing great damage to Brazilians. Partly because of evil, partly because of ignorance."

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