FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during inauguration ceremony of the new Education Minister Abraham Weintraub at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The American Museum of Natural History in New York said on Monday that it will not host a planned gala dinner that was set to honour Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro as "Person of the Year."
The Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce's plans to honour Bolsonaro, who has suggested he would pull Brazil out of the Paris Accord on climate change and wants to develop the Amazon rainforest, at a museum dedicated to science and nature was met with outrage last week.
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