BRASILIA (BRAZIL) – Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao on Wednesday invited actor Leonardo DiCaprio to visit the Amazon to take a look at the reality of the situation there. The government has received flak for the rampant destruction in the world’s largest rainforest.
Mourao invited DiCaprio, an environmental campaigner, on a journey in the remote far western Amazon near the town of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira.
Mourao said, “I would like to invite our most recent critic, Leonardo DiCaprio, to go with me to Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira to do an eight-hour ride through the jungle between the Sao Gabriel airport and the Cucui highway.”
“He will learn with each big pothole that he has to pass that the Amazon is not a flat land and understand better how things work in this vast region.”
Representatives for DiCaprio have not replied for a request to comment.
Last year, with the surge in the fires in the global outcry triggered by Amazon, Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro had criticised DiCaprio of funding fires in the Amazon, without bringing forth any evidence. However, DiCaprio rebuked the allegation.
In July, DiCaprio on Twitter was all praise for the Brazilian government’s 120-day ban on fires in the Amazon, which was an attempt to control the destruction.
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