Venezuela expresses solidarity and offers help to mitigate fires in the Amazon


The National Government expressed on Thursday its solidarity with Brazil, within the framework of the Latin American brotherhood, for which it offered its help in the process of mitigating the devastating forest fires that have been developing for 18 days in the Amazon.
Through a communiqué issued by the Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, the Bolivarian Government expressed concern about deforestation in the Amazon rainforest that occupies the territory in several countries in South America, generating serious impacts on the population, ecosystems and biological diversity in place.
Following, the full Communiqué:
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its deep concern about the gigantic and terrible fires that devastate the Amazon region in the territory of several South American countries, with very serious impacts on the population, ecosystems and biological diversity of the area, considered the plant lung of planet earth.
Reports from international environmental organizations denounce that only in Brazil, forest fires in the Amazon have increased 80% compared to 2018, while environmental defense groups attribute this increase to an aggressive deforestation policy by interests linked to agribusiness and others predatory practices that generate high environmental impacts.
The Bolivarian Government of Venezuela gets in solidarity with the indigenous and peasant communities and communities in Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru, the main affected countries, and calls for awareness in the economic and institutional actors that make life in the countries of the Amazon basin. Venezuela has always claimed the rights of communities to land, promoting economic and ecologically sustainable development, as well as respect for the inalienable rights of the Pachamama, our Mother Earth.
Within the framework of the Latin American brotherhood, and as a member of the Amazonian community, Venezuela offers the modest help it can provide to help mitigate this painful tragedy, in an immediate manner.
The Peoples of South America are united by this natural prodigy that must be defended, protected, and developed by its own inhabitants under policies that protect its environmental fragility and its value as a natural heritage of Humanity.”
Caracas, August 22, 2019.