Brazil’s president again stresses sovereignty over Amazon

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has overseen independence day celebrations with a renewed assertion of his country’s sovereignty over the Amazon.
The president said Saturday that Brazil “cannot continue and will not continue to be passive” in the face of threats to his sovereignty. He stressed: “The Brazilian Amazon is ours.”
He gave no names, but Bolsonaro has repeatedly accused French President Emmanuel Macron of trying to meddle in