Tag: Abraham Weintraub

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Massive students and teachers protests across 17 of 27 Brazilian states

  

  Students and teachers from hundreds of universities and colleges across Brazil began a nationwide demonstration on Wednesday in “defense of education” following a raft of budget cuts announced by President Jair Bolsonaro's government.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro sacks education minister: he proved more conservative than the president

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on Monday sacked his education minister, an ultraconservative who had drawn public ire over a range of controversial proposals including a revision of school textbooks to deny the 1964 military coup.