The Brazilian Education Minister wants to delete textbooks the mentions of the 1964 coup d'etat

The Brazilian Education Minister, Professor of Colombian origin, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, announced that current references to the 1964 coup will be removed from textbooks, which will now be considered a movement promoted by civil society.

"There will be gradual changes in didactic books as a broader version of the story is saved"Vélez Rodríguez said, according to the agency ANSA.

On March 31, 1964, constitutional president Joao Goulart was dismissed as a result of "a sovereign decision of Brazilian society" which a "regime of democratic strength"said the manager.

His opinion coincides with that of President and retired military officer Jair Bolsonaro, who reiterated last week that the regime that ruled between 1964 and 1985 "was not a dictatorship".

Bolsonaro abolished a 2011 decree that banned the celebration of the dictatorship and decided that on March 31 it will be commemorated in the military barracks.

Historical revisionism that changes the interpretation of events that occurred 55 years ago must be reflected in the content of public education, says Rodríguez.

"The role of the Ministry of Education is to regulate the distribution of didactic books and prepare them in a way that that children can have a real idea of ​​their story "said the official, in the line of Bolsonaro.

The minister "is making political propaganda", replied Professor Roberto Romano, president of the chair of ethics of the University of Campinas. "There is a historiography scientifically established with historical evidence, documents, people still alive who were tortured, exiled" which show that there existed in Brazil a dictatorship, the academician said, according to ANSA.

Vélez Rodríguez and Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo adhere to a historical revisionism inspired by the philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, considered one of the men with the most ideological influence on Bolsonaro.

After visiting the Holocaust memorial, the president said in Israel on Tuesday that Nazism was a leftist movement. I suggest that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Araújo, approve this same Tuesday, recommending him to read more "in depth" the history of the first half of the twentieth century.

"History has been manipulated by this new law for political ends, to legitimize its political objectives", raised the historian Bruno Leal, of the University of Brasilia.