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lot,” said Elane Diaz, a nurse
in Porto Velho, the capital of
Rondonia state, as she
waited for a doctor’s ap-
pointment at a hospital
Tuesday with her 5-year-old
son, Eduardo. “They have
problems breathing. I’m
concerned because it affects
their health.”
The number of people
treated for respiratory is-
sues increased in recent
days at the Cosme e Damia
Children’s Hospital.
“This period has been
very tough. The dry weather
and the smoke causes many
problems for children, such
as pneumonia, coughing
and secretion,” Daniel Pires,
a pediatrician and the hospi-
tal’s adjunct director, told
the Folha de S.Paulo news-
paper.
He said the number of
cases has more than
doubled since the early part
of the month.
Fears over health effects
have been growing with the
surge in fires, with more
than 83,000 blazes docu-
mented by the country’s Na-
tional Institute for Space
Research this year. That’s a
77% increase over the same
period last year. About half
of the fires occurred in the
Amazon region, with most in
the last month.
But the issue has been
overshadowed by growing
acrimony between Brazil
and European countries
seeking to help fight fires in a
region seen as vital to the
health of the planet.
At a summit in France
this week, G-7 nations
pledged $20 million for the
effort, with a separate $
million from Britain and $
million from Canada.
Bolsonaro said Wednes-PORTO VELHO, Brazil
— Brazilian President Jair
Bolsonaro said Wednesday
he has accepted four planes
from Chile to help fight Am-
azon fires, and he accused
the French president of por-
traying himself as “the one
and only person” concerned
about the environment.
In criticizing French
leader Emmanuel Macron,
Bolsonaro extended a per-
sonal dispute that has side-
lined a pledge of $20 million
from the Group of 7 nations
to help protect the Amazon
rainforest.
Amazon nations, exclud-
ing Venezuela, will meet in
September “to come up with
our own unified strategy for
preserving the environment
and also for exploration sus-
tainable in our region,” Bol-
sonaro said after meeting
Chilean President Sebas-
tian Piñera in Brasilia, the
Brazilian capital.
Countries in Latin
America that contain the
Amazon rainforest “have
sovereignty over the Ama-
zon, that needs to be recog-
nized always,” Piñera said.
About 60% of the Ama-
zon region is in Brazil. The
vast Amazon extends into
Bolivia, Colombia, Venezue-
la, Ecuador, Peru, Guyana,
Suriname and French Guia-
na, an overseas region of
France.
Lingering smoke in the
Amazon, meanwhile, is re-
portedly causing increased
respiratory problems — par-
ticularly among children
and the elderly — as fires in
the region rage.
“The kids are affected the
most. They’re coughing a
day that Brazil is willing to
accept bilateral offers of aid.
But the president, who
took office this year with a
promise to boost devel-
opment in Latin America’s
biggest economy, has sug-
gested the offers of interna-
tional aid mask a plot to ex-
ploit the Amazon’s re-
sources and weaken Brazil-
ian growth.
He raised those com-
plaints again at the meeting
with Chile’s president, ac-
cusing Germany and France
of trying to “buy” the sover-
eignty of Brazil. Macron has
said Brazil’s sovereignty
must be respected, while he
and other European leaders
say a global approach is
needed to preserve the Ama-
zon.
In a video message, Bra-
zilian novelist Paulo Coelho
offered an apology to France
for what he called Bol-
sonaro’s “hysteria,” saying
the Brazilian government
had resorted to insults to
dodge responsibility for the
Amazon fires.
But many in Brazil said
they support Bolsonaro.
Grace Quale, a hospital
laboratory technician who
attended a service at an
evangelical church on Sun-
day, said that critics “want
to overthrow our president,”
and said she didn’t see a link
between Bolsonaro’s envi-
ronmental policies and the
number of people getting
treatment for respiratory
problems.
Mona Lisa Pereira, an
agronomist, also said criti-
cism of Brazil’s government
was skewed.
“It seems like this is the
fire of a lifetime,” Pereira
said. “But it’s not. We have
fires every year.”Brazil accepts Chile’s aid
to fight Amazon blazes
associated press
A no-deal Brexit on Oct.
31, the designated departure
date, would probably cause
enormous upheaval, snarl-
ing traffic at ports, abruptly
severing supply chains and
triggering shortages of some
food and medicines. In the
longer term, economists
have predicted such a split
could tip Britain into a deep
recession and put a powerful
drag on the global economy.
Even for a politician
whose hallmark is risk-tak-
ing, Johnson’s strategy rep-
resents a major gamble. He
holds only a one-seat work-
ing majority in the 650-mem-
ber Parliament. And even
within the ranks of his own
party, there are a number of
lawmakers who back Brexit
but oppose a no-deal depar-
ture and could join in a move
against him.
In pushing for Brexit at
all costs, the prime minister
claims he is carrying out a
mandate from voters, who in
June 2016 narrowly approved
a referendum to split from
the other 27 EU nations. But
Johnson’s critics say the
public never had a chance to
say yes or no to the idea of
“crashing out” of the bloc
with no accord governing re-
lations going forward.
The prime minister’s
dramatic move came only
days after a meeting with
President Trump at the
Group of 7 summit in Bi-
arritz, France. Trump, who
has enthusiastically backed
Brexit and Johnson, re-
peated his pledge to strike a
big new trade deal with Brit-
ain once the split is finalized.
But the president would
probably encounter sharp
opposition in Congress if
Brexit is carried out in a way
that creates a “hard” border
between Ireland, which is
part of the EU, and Northern
Ireland, which is part of the
United Kingdom, thus
threatening a fragile peace.
Trump inserted himself
into the latest Brexit con-
tretemps, disregarding the
long-standing norm of U.S.
presidents staying out of
democratic allies’ domestic
politics. On Wednesday, he
tweeted an attack on Jeremy
Corbyn, leader of the opposi-
tion Labor Party, who vowed
to seek a vote of no confi-
dence in Johnson’s govern-
ment.
It would be “very hard”
for Corbyn to challenge
Johnson’s standing, Trump
wrote on Twitter, “in light of
the fact that Boris is exactly
what the U.K. has been look-
ing for, & will prove to be ‘a
great one!’ ”
The president added:
“Love U.K.”
Johnson, keeping to his
customary political play-
book, expressed befuddled
innocence when accused of
using a procedural maneu-
ver to prevent lawmakers
from weighing a Brexit de-
lay. “That is completely un-
true,” he said, reeling off a
list of his new government’s
top priorities, including
matters like policing and
schools.
Lawmakers, he said, had
plenty of time to debate.
The prime minister’s
move in effect shuts down
Parliament starting some-
time between Sept. 9 and 12,
giving it a few days’ grace for
finalizing any legislative
loose ends. It won’t come
back until Oct. 14, which
Johnson set for an event
known as the Queen’s
Speech, in which the mon-
arch reads out remarks to
open a new session of Parlia-
ment.
That will be only three
days before a crunch EU
summit, and Brexit will be
only 17 days away.
The queen agreed to
Johnson’s timetable, which
is the usual royal response to
a sitting prime minister’s re-
quest, but opposition lead-
ers are asking her to recon-
sider. The notion of the tra-
ditionally apolitical mon-
arch being dragged into the
dispute, even peripherally, is
a distressing prospect for
Britons who hold dear her
role as a unifying symbol.
Former Conservative
lawmaker Anna Soubry, who
broke with her party over
Brexit, called Johnson’s ac-
tions “an abuse of Her
Majesty the Queen.”
The political battle is ex-
pected to be rejoined when
lawmakers return Tuesday
from their summer break. A
successful no-confidence
vote against Johnson could
trigger a general election,
but it would be difficult to or-
ganize before the EU depar-
ture date of Oct. 31. If suc-
cessful, Corbyn could try to
form a new government and
secure a temporary Brexitdelay.
If Johnson prevailed in a
no-confidence vote, he could
continue to govern, and also
call an election meant to ce-
ment his power in the wake
of Brexit.
In the meantime, the
prime minister’s political
opponents called his tactics
a blow not only to the powers
of Parliament, but also to the
country’s democratic sys-
tem as a whole.
“Make no mistake, this is
a very British coup,” said
John McDonnell, the No. 2 in
the Labor Party leadership.
“Whatever one’s views on
Brexit, once you allow a
prime minister to prevent
the full and free operation of
our democratic institutions
you are on a very precarious
path.”
The uproar highlighted
tensions with Scotland,
where the turbulent Brexit
process has fueled a move-
ment to secede from the
United Kingdom. First Min-
ister Nicola Sturgeon said
this could go down in history
as “the day democracy
died,” and described John-
son as behaving like a “dicta-
tor.”
European presidents and
prime ministers generally
took a hands-off approach to
the debate over Johnson’s
move, describing it as an in-
ternal British matter, but
some EU lawmakers called it
a worrying sign of the new
British leader’s anti-demo-
cratic tendencies.
Guy Verhofstadt, the
Brexit coordinator for the
European Parliament, took
to Twitter to express solidar-
ity with British lawmakers.
“Suppressing debate on pro-
found choices is unlikely to
help deliver a stable future
EU-UK relationship,” he
wrote.Special correspondent
Boyle reported from
London and Times staff
writer King from
Washington.Johnson to suspend Parliament
[Brexit,from A1]
AN ANTI-BREXIT protester carries a flare in cen-
tral London. Brexit is scheduled to take place Oct. 31.Matt DunhamAssociated Press