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Bolsonaro launches 'Brazil week' in bid to 'revamp' image over Amazon fires
Source: The Guardian
Bolsonaro launches ‘Brazil week’ in bid to 'revamp' image over Amazon fires
President urged citizens to hit the streets and show ‘the Amazon is ours’ amid sinking ratings and vilification over the Amazon
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Tom Phillips in Porto Velho
Fri 6 Sep 2019 13.07 BST
Last modified on Fri 6 Sep 2019 23.45 BST
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has urged citizens to clad themselves in the country’s yellow and green and hit the streets as part of a populist push designed to shore up support amid sinking ratings and international vilification over the Amazon.
Bolsonaro made the appeal before Saturday’s annual 7 September independence day celebrations, for which tub-thumping and highly politicized displays of patriotism will be on show.
“It’s to show the world that this is Brazil. That the Amazon is ours,” Bolsonaro said on Tuesday as he launched what officials dubbed “Brazil week” – a seven-day carnival of consumption that begins on Friday.
Bernardo Mello Franco, a columnist for Brazil’s O Globo newspaper, described the gambit as a bid to “revamp” Bolsonaro’s flagging image, which has been badly hit by international outrage over the Amazon fires and Brazil’s somnolent economy.
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President urged citizens to hit the streets and show ‘the Amazon is ours’ amid sinking ratings and vilification over the Amazon
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Tom Phillips in Porto Velho
Fri 6 Sep 2019 13.07 BST
Last modified on Fri 6 Sep 2019 23.45 BST
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has urged citizens to clad themselves in the country’s yellow and green and hit the streets as part of a populist push designed to shore up support amid sinking ratings and international vilification over the Amazon.
Bolsonaro made the appeal before Saturday’s annual 7 September independence day celebrations, for which tub-thumping and highly politicized displays of patriotism will be on show.
“It’s to show the world that this is Brazil. That the Amazon is ours,” Bolsonaro said on Tuesday as he launched what officials dubbed “Brazil week” – a seven-day carnival of consumption that begins on Friday.
Bernardo Mello Franco, a columnist for Brazil’s O Globo newspaper, described the gambit as a bid to “revamp” Bolsonaro’s flagging image, which has been badly hit by international outrage over the Amazon fires and Brazil’s somnolent economy.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/06/bolsonaro-brazil-week-amazon-fires