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Nitpick: the Worker's Party was in power up to 2016, when president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and their former allies, centrists Democratic Movement, rose to
by Carioca 7y ago
Nitpick: the Worker's Party was in power up to 2016, when president Dilma Rousseff was impeached and their former allies, centrists Democratic Movement, rose to power. Even Dilma wasn't particularly friendly to the environment, as can be seen on the 2010-2016 data.
Bolsonaro's presidency is on another level of pandering to illegal loggers and agribusiness, though. The current Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, is openly hostile to anything relating to preservation. Including risking a free investment by European countries to the tune of about half a billion dollars