On Friday, Macron threatened to block an important EU trade deal with Brazil and other South American countries, claiming that Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro had lied about his position on climate change.
Smoke from the blazes has reached as far east as the Atlantic coast and blocked out the sun as a far away as Saõ Paulo, more than 2,000 miles to the south. Meanwhile NASA is tracking a carbon monoxide plume stretching across Brazil into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Bolsonaro in turn tweeted his praise of Trump, writing in Portuguese, “I had an excellent conversation today with the President @realDonaldTrump. Relations between Brazil and the U.S. are better than ever. We have a mutual desire to launch a major trade negotiation soon to promote the prosperity of our peoples” ABC News reports.
