Bolsonaro invites Trump to explore the Amazon

During a radio interview, President Bolsonaro said that he proposed the opening of the Amazon region for exploration in partnership with the USA in the State meeting with president Donald Trump in Washington in March. “When I met Trump, I told him that I want to open the Amazon for him, as a  partnership. The way things are now, we will lose the Amazon, an area vital to the world”. The president went on to explain what he meant by ‘losing the Amazon’, saying that the UN discusses with indigenous leaders the possibility of “creating new countries  in Brazil” and accusing a minority  inside FUNAI of blocking the development of the region to “make money on top of the indigenous. ” He once again criticized what he calls “an  industry to demarcate indigenous lands”, saying that  many lands were demarcated based on “suspicious reports”.