Bolsonaro releases video in English with false information about deforestation in Brazil

“These are the facts. I ask you to send it to friends who live abroad.” That’s how President Jair Bolsonaro rallied his troops in a video published on his official Twitter profile. The video narrated in English with false information about Brazilian environmental policy and deforestation in the country.

Bolsonaro claimed that the material tells “the truth of environmental preservation, when comparing Brazil to the world.” Among the lies present in the video is the claim that the country is “extremely preserved” and that it has 85% of its energy coming from renewable sources.

In the first quarter of 2022, the Amazon registered a new deforestation record, for example, according to monitoring data from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) itself.