; Whereas the rate of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil increased by 88 percent in June 2019, compared to the same period in 2018, according to Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research; Whereas, in August 2019, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research announced that it had identified nearly 40,000 fires in the Brazilian Amazon since the beginning of the year, a phenomenon linked to deforestation and the expansion of slash and burn agriculture; Whereas Brazil’s foreign minister, Ernesto Araujó, has referred to climate change as a plot by cultural marxists ; Whereas the Bolsonaro administration has made drastic cuts to Brazil’s environmental enforcement agency; Whereas, according to the international NGO, Global Witness, Brazil is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for land and environmental advocates; Whereas President Bolsonaro has publicly expressed support for the indiscriminate killing of criminal suspects by the police; Whereas, according to Brazil’s Institute of Public Security, police agents in Rio de Janeiro killed a record 432 people in the first three months of 2019; Whereas, on April 7, 2019, Afro-Brazilian musician Evaldo Rosa dos Santos was killed in Rio de Janeiro when military troops shot his vehicle 80 times; Whereas, on February 4, 2019, Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro introduced legislation that, according to Human Rights Watch, could significantly increase the quantity of unjustifiable killings perpetrated by police agents; Whereas, in March 2018, Afro-Brazilian LGBTQ activist and dissident politician Marielle Franco was assassinated, and the individuals who ordered her murder remain at large; Whereas homophobic hate crimes and killings have been increasing throughout Brazil, as reported by the Washington Post, and openly gay Congressman Jean Wyllys fled Brazil in January 2019, after receiving repeated death threats