Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday accused the state body responsible ...
FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro looks on during a National Soccer Day Cerenomy in Brasilia, Brazil July 19, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
“I am convinced that the data is a lie, and we will ask the president to come here and talk about it,” Bolsonaro said Friday morning during a meeting with foreign journalists. Inpe said in a statement on Friday that it constantly monitors the quality of its deforestation data, which currently presents an accuracy rate of over 95 percent.
But the Brazilian president said the data does not correspond to the truth, repeating that he believes Brazil suffers from an “environmental psychosis.” He angrily replied to one European journalist: “The Amazon is ours, not yours.”
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