Brazilian ultra-right candidate would copy Donald Trump's environmental policies. Jair Bolsonaro would seek to get Brazil out of the Paris Agreement to promote extractive industries in the Amazon and promises to close the Ministry of the Environment.
By José Díaz
Servindi, October 15, 2018.- Once again, the Amazon would be threatened by a politician in South America. The favorite candidate to win the presidential elections in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, would seek to replicate the environmental policies applied by Donald Trump in the United States. The Brazilian ultra-rightist candidate is not only a skeptic of environmentalism, but also seeks to promote an extractive policy in the jungle.
Although he has not yet won the elections, Bolsonaro is emerging as the favorite and is already talking about who would make up his possible Cabinet of Ministers. Precisely one of the most mentioned names is that of Nabhan García, current adviser of agriculture in the campaign and a strong promoter of extractive industries in the Amazon.
Nabhan García would be who promoted Jair Bolsonaro’s statements to get out of the Paris Agreement due to the protections that this treaty applies to the Amazon. This proposal is what has generated that the still Brazilian parliamentarian be compared with Donald Trump.
Another controversial proposal by Jair Bolsonaro is that of disappearing the current Ministry of the Environment and merging it into a same entity together with the Ministry of Agriculture. The latter, according to the Brazilian politician, with the goal of "reducing bureaucracy." This new institution would be headed in an eventual management of Bolsonaro by its current campaign advisor Nabhan García.
Indigenous resistance
One of the sectors that has expressed its rejection of the policies offered by Bolsonaro in the campaign are the indigenous communities of the Brazilian Amazon. This is because the right-wing politician has indicated that he wishes to stop recognizing more native reserves and intangible territories in the jungle in order to favor the agricultural industry that promotes Amazonian deforestation.
Jair Bolsonaro also anticipated that one of the legislative reforms that would implement an eventual administration would imply reducing the penalties for industries that fail to comply with environmental standards. In other words, Bolsonaro would stop the initial projects in Brazil in recent years that seek to stop deforestation in the Amazon that occupies more than 60% of Brazilian territory.
With a homophobic, religious and anti-environmental discourse, Jair Bolsonaro has polarized the Brazilian political scene, something that has favored him. Far from obeying the recommendations of the OAS not to issue extreme speeches, the candidate answered bluntly: "I am an admirer of Trump. He wants a US great, and I want a big Brazil. "
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