'How can the media give space to a brat like that,' Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. Look how Ms Thunberg responded.
Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro called Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg a"brat" on Tuesday after she criticized mounting violence against indigenous people in which two Amazon tribesmen were shot dead three days ago."Greta said the Indians died because they were defending the Amazon . How can the media give space to a brat like that," Mr Bolsonaro told reporters, using the Portuguese word"pirralha.
Ms Thunberg turned a spotlight on the struggles of the world's indigenous peoples to protect the environment on Monday at the United Nations climate change summit in Madrid.Two Indigenous men of the Guajajara tribe in eastern Amazon were shot dead on Saturday in a drive-by shooting not far from where a prominent tribesman who defended the Amazon rainforest was also killed last month.
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