Petro and Lula discuss Amazon crisis

Monday, July 10th 2023 - 10:56 UTC


Presidents Gustavo Petro of Colombia and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil convened Saturday at the so-called Leticia Summit in the capital of southern Colombia's Amazonas department to discuss the deterioration of the Amazon rainforest and share experiences on the issue.

Petro and Lula held a first meeting at the National University of Leticia, where they participated in the closing plenary of the Technical Scientific Meeting of the Amazon, a gathering of environment ministers of countries with territory in the Amazon.

The Leticia Summit was a prelude to the Amazon Summit the Brazilian government is holding in Belem next month, to be attended by leaders of the countries that are party to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.

“These meetings, these common struggles, even these discussions have to do with the defense of life, a simple concept, but without which everything else is superfluous,” said Petro, who once again presented his administration's plan to overcome his country's dependence fossil and non-renewable energies to “avoid the sixth extinction of life on the planet.”

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