Brazilian president makes unfounded claim NGOs are setting fires in the Amazon

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As controversy swirls around him for failing to protect the world’s largest rainforest from fires, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blamed environmental groups and nongovernmental organizations for setting the blazes.

“On the question of burning in the Amazon, which in my opinion may have been initiated by NGOs because they lost money, what is the intention? To bring problems to Brazil,” Bolsonaro said, according to The Guardian.

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