| I count the parent, and a couple more replying with something-must-be-done answers at the suggestion that the territory be forcefully or otherwise removed from Brazilian sovereignty. There are other comments in other sub-threads. Also, this pretext isn't a new idea, and there's heavyweight international support for it. “Contrary to what Brazilians think, the Amazon is not their property, it belongs to all of us,” Al Gore, then a senator, said in 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18barrionuev... The Latin-American Bishops Conference denounced this back in 2007: The growing assault on the environment may serve as a pretext for proposals to internationalize the Amazon, which only serve the economic interests of transnational corporations. Pan-Amazon society is multiethnic, multicultural, and multireligious. The dispute over the occupation of the land is intensifying more and more. The traditional communities of the region want their lands to be recognized and legalized. https://www.celam.org/aparecida/Ingles.pdf
Paragraph 86 The Brazilian Amazon territory borders British, French and Dutch interests in Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname, respectively. So, I don't see a horde of enemies, but I see an agenda. In my view, Bolsonaro's tenure is viewed as an opportunity to further this agenda, and that's if he's not in it himself. |