Tag: Ricardo Vélez Rodriguez

• 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.

• Saturday, April 6th 2019 - 08:43 UTC

  Bolsonaro argues that Brazil's 1964 coup was really a “democratic regime of force”

  

  Days after celebrating the anniversary of the military coup that led to Brazil's last dictatorship, the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is pushing for a revision of the history curriculum for the country's schools.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Education purge in Brazil: national anthem and Bolsonaro's campaign slogan in all schools

  

  Brazil’s new right-wing government requested on Monday that schools film their students singing the national anthem and that a message including President Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign slogan be read aloud to classes.

• Friday, January 11th 2019 - 12:27 UTC

  Bolsonaro's “traditional values” reaches Brazilian school textbooks

  

  School textbooks in Brazil will no longer need to highlight the country's ethnic diversity under rule changes brought in under the government of new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

• Saturday, November 24th 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  Extreme right philosopher nominated as Brazil's Education minister

  

  Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen Ricardo Vélez Rodriguez, a Colombian professor naturalized Brazilian, to be the next Minister of Education. The late Friday announcement happened on social media and is considered a bow to the evangelical Christian backers of the elected president.