Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes on Thursday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation raids under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to end surging destruction inherited from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
He's in a large coalition with a bunch of neoliberal and conservative parties that came together because their main ideology was pro-democracy and anti-bolsonarism. His main rival in the 1990s, Fernando Cardoso, met with Lula and recorded several videos in support of him, telling how the two were close friends and how both were against the dictatorship in the 1980s. But it seems that most of the population supports the purges.
He's in a large coalition with a bunch of neoliberal and conservative parties that came together because their main ideology was pro-democracy and anti-bolsonarism. His main rival in the 1990s, Fernando Cardoso, met with Lula and recorded several videos in support of him, telling how the two were close friends and how both were against the dictatorship in the 1980s. But it seems that most of the population supports the purges.