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Not every day a Latino in this case, a Brazilian, and gives him a good slap to Americans strudel. During a debate at a university in the U.S., asked the former governor of Ontario and the Minister of Education of Brazil, CRISTOVÃO "CHICO" BUARQUE, what he thought about the internationalization of the Amazon. An American at the United Nations introduced the question, saying he hoped the response of a humanist, not a Brazilian.

This was the response from Mr Cristóvão Buarque:

"Really, as a Brazilian, only speak against the internationalization of the Amazon. As much as our governments do not properly care for this heritage, it is ours. As a humanist, feeling the risk of environmental degradation suffered by Amazon, I can imagine his internationalization, as well as everything else, it is of utmost importance to mankind.

If the Amazon, from a humanist ethics, must be internationalized, also internationalize the oil reserves worldwide. Oil is so important to the welfare of humanity as the Amazon for our future. Nevertheless, owners of stocks they believe have the right to increase or decrease the production of oil and its price increase or not.

Similarly, the financial capital of the rich countries should be internationalized. If the Amazon is a reserve for all human beings should not be burned only by the will of an owner or a country. Burn the Amazon is as serious as the unemployment caused by the arbitrary decisions of global speculators. We can not have financial reserves serve to burn entire countries in the luxury of speculation.

Also, before Amazon, I would like to see the internationalization of the great museums of the world. The Louvre should not belong only to France. Every museum in the world is the guardian of the most beautiful pieces produced by the human genius. You can not let this cultural heritage, natural heritage as Amazon, be manipulated and destroyed by the mere pleasure of an owner or a country. Not long ago, a Japanese millionaire decided to be buried together with him, a picture of a great teacher. On the contrary, that picture should have been internationalized.

During that meeting, the United Nations was doing the Millennium Forum, but some presidents of countries had difficulties to participate due to unpleasant situations encountered in the U.S. border So I think that New York as United Nations headquarters, should be internationalized. At least Manhattan should belong to all humanity. In the same way as Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia ... each city, with its specific beauty, history of the world, should belong to the world.

If the U.S. wants to internationalize the Amazon, to avoid running the risk of leaving it in the hands of Brazilians, Peruvians, Colombians, Ecuadorians, Bolivians, etc.., Internationalize all the nuclear arsenals. Suffice to say that they already showed they are capable of using these weapons, causing destruction thousands of times greater than the deplorable burnings done in the woods of our forest.

In his speeches, the current candidates for president of the United States have championed the idea of internationalizing the world's forest reserves in exchange for debt. Let's start using this debt to ensure that every child in the world has the chance to eat and go to school. Internationalize the children, treating them all regardless of country where born, as patrimony that deserves care worldwide.

Much more than deserves the Amazon. When leaders treat the poor children of the world as a World Heritage Site, will not work when they should study, they die when they should live. As a humanist I accept to defend the internationalization of the world, but while the world treats me as a Brazilian, I will fight for the Amazon is ours. Only our! "