The Brazilian government Roberto Alvim was scheduled to announce a new Latin American art award and instead unleashed a scandal: in the video of the official announcement, he used phrases extremely similar to quotes from Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minister of the Nazi regime.
Alvin, who had been Minister of Culture of the Jair Bolsonaro government since November, was fired hours after the video was made public, before the repudiation of artistic groups, Jewish associations and more in the South American country.
In the video, Alvim discusses an arts initiative focused on nationalism and religion (the now former minister is evangelical) and says that culture will produce in the country within a decade "will be historical and national", and should be " linked to the urgent stretches of our people or it will be nothing. "
"Rhetorical Matching"
Brazilian media soon stressed that these words are extremely similar to a 1933 Goebbels speech about German art that "in the next decade will be historical" and national, as well as "imperative and binding or it will be nothing."
Alvim said to critics that it was a "rhetorical coincidence." Bolsonaro said in a statement Friday that it was "an unfortunate pronouncement and that even with his apologies" Alvim's role in the ministerial office became unsustainable.
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The situation is particularly delicate, as the current Brazilian government has been branded an ultra - rightist and accused of authoritarian tendencies. Bolsonaro, a retired military officer, encouraged the armed forces in March last year to celebrate the anniversary of the coup that led to the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985).
When he was a deputy, he was also criminally investigated for threatening to violate a legislator and received a fine for fishing in an environmental reserve.
During his tenure, deaths at the hands of police and reports of human rights abuses have increased, as well as criticism of fire management in the Amazon.
With AP information