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The Minister of Education of Brazil, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, defended on Wednesday in Congress the establishment of civic military schools to avoid the contact of students with crime and cited as a positive example the social work carried out in Medellin by the Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.

"With military civic education, the trafficker fails, because he wants to maneuver a mbad, that's what Pablo Escobar did. The same, Pablo had football fields and a small library for young people, he wanted these young people do not use cocaine an export product, the idea was not to consume in Colombia "he said.

Vélez Rodríguez, a Colombian nationalized Brazilian since the 1970s, gave as an example Escobar, a drug trafficker killed in 1993 by police after turning Colombia into a major cocaine exporter.

The Minister defended the establishment of military management in public schools, as began the state of Goiás and the Federal District of Brasília. According to him, the military leadership removes the traffickers from the school.

Ricardo said that Brazil "lives what Colombia lived 30 years ago" by badociating violence with drug trafficking and citing this crack "is present in 98% of municipalities".