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Brazil withdraws offer to host UN climate change summit |
2018-12-03 |
[Legal Insurrection] President-elect Bolsonaro';s choices for his new administration indicate a prosperity-oriented direction for Brazil. The last time we checked on Brazil, Jair M. Bolsonaro, the nation's President-elect who is often referred to as the "Brazilian Trump," announced plans to move the country's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Israel's capital, Jerusalem. Now, in the mode of the American President, Brazil is canceling its plans to host a UN climate change summit. Brazil has withdrawn its offer to host a large UN conference on climate change next year, the foreign ministry said Wednesday, leading environmental groups to question the government's commitment to reducing carbon emissions. As an extra bonus, and in keeping with his vision for the new, prosperity-oriented direction for his nation, Bolsonaro chose a Trump-admiring diplomat who claims climate change is a plot by 'cultural Marxists' as his new foreign minister. Bolsonaro's pick of career diplomat Ernesto Araujo, 51, underscored Brazil's sharp turn to the right and the reversal of nearly a decade and a half of diplomacy under leftist Workers Party governments that focused on alliances with South American allies and ideological partners ‐ including Cuba. Araujo isn't the only appointment that has earned the ire of green justice activists. His pick as agriculture minister is the head of the farming lobby, Tereza Cristina Dias, who conservationists have nicknamed the "Muse of Poison" due to her enthusiastic support for relaxing controls on agro-toxins. I predict that Bolsonaro Derangement Syndrome should begin shortly. |
Posted by:Frank G |
#4 Make Brazil Great |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-12-03 07:09 |
#3 A Brazilian guy I know snarks that Brazil is the country of the future... and always will be. Bolsonaro gives me hope for the place A lot of wasted potential there. |
Posted by: SteveS 2018-12-03 06:33 |
#2 Why does Brazil hate prostitutes so much? |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-12-03 05:57 |
#1 Brasil has bottomed out. The only place to make any kind of living is a government job. I know a military officer, which technically is a government job, who had to take a second government job, teaching chemistry at a college to make ends meet for his small family. |
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-12-03 01:45 |