03/09/2019 10:41
Amazon fires: Jair Bolsonaro to miss summit for surgery
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro will miss a planned summit on the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest to prepare for surgery, an aide has said.
The operation will be the far-right leader's fourth after he was stabbed in the stomach during his presidential election campaign in 2018.
Brazil may send a representative in his place or ask for the summit to be postponed, the spokesman said.
More than 80,000 fires have broken out in the Amazon rainforest this year.
Mr Bolsonaro has drawn intense domestic and international criticism for failing to protect the region, which is a vital carbon store that slows the pace of global warming.