Jair Bolsonaro's government sends the 2020 Budget to Congress; ministries of Human Rights and the Environment will have the lowest investments

According to the Congresso em Foco website, the ministries that take care of the preservation of Brazilian human rights and the environment will receive the smallest portions of the 2020 budget. The proposal was ratified yesterday by the text's rapporteur in Congress, Domingos Neto.

Confer to the ratified text, the 2020 Federal Budget will distribute R$ 225.95 billion among 16 areas. While the Ministry of Mines and Energy will receive the largest share: R$ 113.3 billion, Environment  and Human Rights will receive R$ 561.6 million and R$ 467.4 million, respectively.

Budget 2020 also set the minimum wage at R$ 1,031 (about 250 dollars in today's exchange rate). Thus, the minimum wage will have a readjustment of 3.31%, which means that there will be no real increase compared to the current value of R$ 998, only the correction of inflation of 2019.

Members of the Federal Prosecution Service of Brazil (MPF) file a civil action against President Jair Bolsonaro's government to force him to act to combat the oil spill that is already the biggest environmental disaster in the country's coastal history

Prosecutors in nine northeastern states accuse the Brazilian federal government of omission. They decided to go to court to demand that the federal government trigger a 24-hour contingency plan, which was created in 2013 and was terminated on April 2014 by the Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) government. Following the adoption of the measure imposed by the government of Jair Bolsonaro, dozens of boards of the federal administration and two committees that were part of the National Contingency Plan for Oil Pollution Incidents (PNC), were extinguished.

So far, oil containment that is polluting several beaches in northeastern Brazil is being done by Petrobras and state governments. The governor of Bahia, Rui Costa, publicly discussed with the Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, through Twitter.

Costa said Salles should "stop doing politics and work" and asked the minister if she already knew who was responsible for the "very serious environmental accident" and what the minister had done about the leak.

The lack of action by the federal government is very serious indeed. The problem of oil slicks on the Brazilian coast began in August, but only in recent days has the federal government started to act a little more intensely. However, Jair Bolsonaro, who has not visited any of the affected areas, will travel to Asia in the midst of the biggest environmental crisis of the history of the Brazilian beaches.

Since August 30, 187 regions of the Brazilian Northeast coast have been reached. 12 conservation units were polluted. Beautiful beaches that attract thousands of tourists every year were hit, as is the case of São José da Coroa Grande (PE) beach.

The images are terrifying. In many beaches, the residents themselves are gathering to try to remove the oil and save the environment, but the lack of a plan of combat and action by the federal government in these regions is evident.