"It could be ranchers. Everyone is suspicious, but the biggest suspicion comes from NGOs. [I have] ho proof. NGOs have lost money... they are unemployed. What are they trying to do? Bring me down."
— Jair Bolsonaro

January 1, 1970

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Anti-communistsNationalistsPresidents of BrazilPeople from São PauloActivists from Brazil
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On 22 August 2019, suggesting that NGOs were behind the fires in the Amazon rainforest. Bolsonaro says Brazil lacks resources to fight Amazon fires. Financial Times (22 August 2019).