Bolsonaro’s impact on Amazon, after less than eight months in office, questionable

Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, is definitely the icing on the cake, but it’s questionable how much impact he has had after less than eight months in power

The amount of forest the agribusiness industry and Brazilian farmers destroyed annually went into steady decline after the Workers’ Party took power in 2003, but the damage has been trending back up again since the last PT president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached by Congress in 2015. Photo by Agustín Diaz on Unsplash

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 26, 2019

The Amazon is not on fire. There are fires in the Amazon rainforest, as there are every year in July through September, because this is the dry season. There may be more fires than usual this year, and it may even be the fault of Jair Bonsonaro, the Trump mini-me who ...

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