I
do not agree at all with his views but I cannot criticise the Brazilian
population for their decision to elect Jair Bolsonaro as President. I am a
foreigner and I live far away from Brazil. Moreover, I do not want to discuss
the electoral propriety of the process that led to his election. I leave that
to the Brazilians themselves and to their institutions, media and political
class. They are more than prepared to do it.
However,
I should feel free to criticise the political decisions of President Bolsonaro
that either violate established common values or have an international impact.
In particular, his approach to the Amazon rainforest. The President is not
protecting the forest, as he is ignoring the rights of the indigenous
populations that call the Amazon home. His policies encourage the destruction
of the Amazon by greedy ranchers, latifundia farmers, illegal miners, criminal loggers
and many other individuals that have no respect for the law and human life. Some
of this people are most likely behind the thousands of fires that are consuming
the Amazon. Such fires are a major ecological disaster for the region and the
world. One cannot ignore them.
In
this circumstances, international pressure on President Bolsonaro must be
intensified for him to change his policies, and to protect the indigenous populations
and to seek international cooperation in the fight against the destruction of
the forest. At the same time, a global fund must be fully supported to finance
the preservation of the Amazon, regenerate what can be rebuilt and compensate
the Brazilian people for doing so. Here, as in many other issues, President Bolsonaro
should not hide behind false nationalism. He must accept the role and the
resources of such fund.
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