A day after G-7 leaders announced a $20 million donation, Jair Bolsonaro said he’ll consider accepting the donation only after Emmanuel Macron “retracts his words”
Bolsonaro and Macron. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photos: Getty Images Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t want the $20 million that G-7 nations have pledged to help fight fires in the Amazon unless it also comes with an apology from French president Emmanuel Macron.
The criticism began with a statement from Macron’s office last week that suggested Bolsonaro lied at June’s G-20 summit in Osaka when he said he was serious about fighting climate change. When Macron later threatened to block a trade deal with the E.U. and South America unless Brazil took the fires more seriously, Bolsonaro accused him of operating with a “colonialist mentality.”
Over the weekend things got personal. On Sunday, a supporter of Bolsanro’s mocked the appearance of Brigitte Macron, the French First Lady, on Facebook. The post compared her to Bolsonaro’s 37-year-old wife Michelle. It included the text: “Now you understand why Macron is persecuting Bolsonaro?”Macron was not happy. “He has made some extraordinarily rude comments about my wife,” Macron said of Bolsonaro Monday.
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