2248 fire - in one month: Brazil clears the rainforest

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Slash and burn in northeastern Brazil

At a time when politicians are media-savvy role-players, it doesn't happen too often that you can look behind the facade. The way they talk when they are among themselves, their covert intentions, all of this is usually hidden. But recently a video appeared in Brazil that takes your breath away. The recording was made at a cabinet meeting at the end of April. A judge released her for documenting President Jair Bolsonaro's attempt to protect his family from police investigations.

There are chasms that open up in those two or more hours, and this relates less to Bolsonaro's insulted roar. More shocking was the ideological madness with which his education minister at the time demanded that the "rabble of the Supreme Court" be put in jail. The duty of duty, with which the Family Minister then noted not to forget critical governors. The silence of the generals sitting at the table.

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