Brazil’s Controversial Environment Minister Salles Resigns
- Replaced by ministry secretary Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite
- Bolsonaro had defended Salles through a series of scandals
Brazil's former Environment Minister Ricardo Salles speaks during an interview on Nov. 9, 2020.
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Brazil’s controversial Environment Minister Ricardo Salles, who’s been targeted by the federal police in a probe into alleged irregularities in timber exports, has quit his post.
Salles said on Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro accepted his resignation letter and that he will be replaced by Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, a former member of an agricultural lobbying group who has worked at the environment ministry since 2019.