Billionaire Elon Musk arrived in Brazil Friday, announcing a project to bring internet access to schools in the Amazon and improve satellite monitoring of the rainforest.
May 20, 2022
Billionaire Elon Musk arrived in Brazil Friday, announcing a project to bring internet access to schools in the Amazon and improve satellite monitoring of the rainforest. The world’s richest man touched down in a private jet at an airfield outside Sao Paolo, according to the G1 news portal. Mush was set to meet Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro at a luxury hotel in Porto Feliz, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) outside Sao Paulo, according to the O Globo newspaper.
« Super excited to be in Brazil for launch of Starlink for 19,000 unconnected schools in rural areas & environmental monitoring of Amazon! » tweeted Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. Communications Minister Fabio Faria, who met Musk in Texas last November, tweeted the businessman was visiting « to discuss Connectivity and Protection of the Amazon with the Brazilian government. »
He added: « Since we are going to connect the Amazon, we brought one of the largest entrepreneurs in the world to help us in this mission.
