Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that South American countri...
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro greets Chile's President Sebastian Pinera at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil August 28, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
In an indication that Bolsonaro, a far-right conservative, is forging closer ties with neighboring countries than European nations, he also accepted Chile’s offer of four aircraft to help fight the fires sweeping through the world’s largest rainforest. Pinera offered his full backing to Bolsonaro, saying the sovereignty of the nations that share the Amazon had to be respected, while Bolsonaro said Brazil’s sovereignty had “no price, not even $20 trillion.”
Macron has accused Bolsonaro, a longtime skeptic of environmental concerns, of lying about climate change.
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