The media's comparison of the pair's respective fire-fighting measures has revealed Brazil's inability to combat the country's worst fire crisis since 2010.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his government's reaction has been timid, insufficient and late response that falls far short of the aggressiveness of the fires.
The country has been burning for two and a half months thanks to blazes fed by a historic drought and organized crime.
This wave of fires is quantitatively worse than what was seen in Bolsonaro's first year in office, which helped to confirm him as one of the planet's foremost environmental villains.
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