Boo hiss...! Marina Silva on #FlávioBolsonaro: He will try to finish his father’s ‘perverse project’ to destroy the #AmazonRainforest
Tom Phillips in #RioDeJaneiro
Exclusive: Former Brazilian environment minister warns of destruction as far-right scion favourite to become president
"The former Brazilian environment minister Marina Silva has said that if Flávio Bolsonaro becomes president he will seek to finish the 'perverse project' of rampant rainforest destruction initiated by his jailed far-right father.
"The Amazon was thrown into chaos during #JairBolsonaro’s 2019-2022 presidency, when #Brazil ’s #environment and #Indigenous protection agencies were gutted and #EnvironmentalCriminals ran riot, causing surges in #deforestation and #violence.
"Despite that, Bolsonaro’s eldest son, Flávio, is the favourite to beat the leftwing incumbent, Luiz Inácio #Lula da Silva, in the second round of the presidential election on 25 October. #Flávio, 45, beat Lula, 80, by more than 2m votes in the first round last Sunday, amid a wave of anti-incumbency and anti-left sentiment that catapulted a record number of far-right politicians into an already conservative congress.
"Silva, a world-renowned environmentalist who was Lula’s environment minister until April, says a second #Bolsonaro presidency will spell disaster for the globally crucial #ecosystem, for its inhabitants and for the #ClimateCrisis .
" 'I’ve no doubt that this time they will try to finish the perverse project they started with [Jair] Bolsonaro. If they are elected – and God, and the Brazilian people, willing they won’t be – they will use their time to try to speed up as much as possible all of the regressions they can, including to keep themselves in power,' says Silva, who was appointed after Lula beat Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 election."
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/10/marina-silva-flavio-bolsonaro-the-amazon-brazil-president-far-right
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/XSF5G
#ProtectNature #Brasil #ProtectTheRainForest #ProtestTheForest #ProtectTheAmazon #PlanetEarthsLungs