De Souza recently allowed a Globo television crew to accompany an agency operation against prospectors in the Yanomami Indigenous territory, and gave an on-camera interview. The president has called career environmental and Indigenous officials radicals and during his tenure their agencies have been defanged. For years, Bolsonaro has accused Globo and several other mainstream media of unfair coverage that favors the opposition. Lacerda, of the environmental officials’ union, said in a phone interview that the retired colonel shouldn’t have been named to his position at IBAMA in the first place. “Our struggle is for only environmental officials to occupy these positions.

Source: thestar August 18, 2022 23:02 UTC