Brazil

Brazilan President Jair Bolsonaro, seen in Brasilia in April. Adriano Machado/Reuters. CNN —. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's abysmal track record ...

"We stopped having big problems with the environmental issue, especially regarding the fine(s). Does it have to exist? He noted the massive backlog of cases that the reconciliation process has created. Bolsonaro is expected to meet with United States President Joe Biden at this month's Summit of Americas in Los Angeles for their first formal talks. Since 2019, Bolsonaro has advocated for the practice of reconciliation hearings to speed up the fine process. But environmental defenders say the option for reconciliation should not exist at all. It emphasized that the decree significantly increases fines, and defended environmental reconciliation hearings as helping to ensure "more efficiency" in collecting them.