Bolsonaro wants to “marry progress and the environment”

On a Facebook livestream, President Bolsonaro reaffirmed the need to promote a “marriage between progress and the environment”. Accompanied by the Ministers of Agriculture and Economy, he blamed the demarcation of indigenous and quilombola lands as being obstacles to the economic development of Amazon states such as Roraima, Acre and Amapa. Earlier that day, at a Senate hearing to celebrate World Environment Day, the Minister of Environment was booed and whooped after he tried to deny accusations of dismantling IBAMA and ICMBio, the  main federal environmental agencies. He left the session before the end as people called him a “runaway”.