Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon. Bolsonaro questioned the coverage news media have given Thunberg, 16, who on Sunday tweeted a link
1 / 2Brazil Bolsonaro Vs NGOsFILE - In this Oct. 1, 2019 file photo, President Jair Bolsonaro attends a ceremony to launch an agro program at the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil. Alter do Chao, a sleepy Amazon town, has become the flashpoint for the growing hostility between Bolsonaro and environmental groups following the arrest of firefighters he says set rainforest fires.
“Greta said that the Indians died because they were defending the Amazon,” Bolsonaro told a group of journalists. “It's impressive that the press is giving space to a brat like that,” he added, using the Portuguese word ”pirralha."Thunberg became a symbol for youth demanding radical change to confront climate change when she sparked global school strikes.
“Indigenous people are being literally murdered for trying to protect the forrest from illegal deforestation," she tweeted."Over and over again. It is shameful that the world remains silent about this.” Gabriela Baesse, 27, said that the exchange showed the Brazilian president “doesn't understand the youth."
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