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Bolsonaro mulls deploying army to combat Amazon fires

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PORTO VELHO, Brazil—Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he is considering deploying the army to help combat fires raging in the Amazon rainforest, as a growing global outcry over the blazes

threatens to torpedo a huge trade deal.

The latest official figures show 76,720 forest fires were recorded in Brazil so far this year—the highest number for any year since 2013. More than half are in the Amazon. "The tendency is that," Bolsonaro said, after holding a late-night crisis meeting with members of his cabinet. In an escalating public row over the blazes, Macron on Friday accused Bolsonaro of lying to him on Brazil's stance on climate change.

"The extent of the fires in the Amazon area is shocking and threatening and not only for Brazil and the other affected countries, but also for the whole world," German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said Friday.INTERNATIONAL PARIAH Thomaz Favaro of Control Risks consultancy told AFP Bolsonaro's comments were "raising the risks of sanctions and retaliation, including against the EU-Mercosur deal."

 

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