The Brazilian minister denied the coup d'etat …

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The Minister of Education, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, has fallen. He will be remembered for his ephemeral management. He had suggested that textbooks teach that in 1964 there had been no military coup by the army but the "sovereign decision of Brazilian society" which had to a constitutional president to establish "a regime of democratic force".

Jair Bolsonaro fired him yesterday morning after a meeting off the agenda of the day at Plbadto Palace. The crisis got so bad that the ministry was already "exhausting", the president admitted. It was the second fall of the government, when there were only two days left to fill the first hundred members of an old-fashioned government: with the lowest popularity of the first three months of administration.

"I communicate to all indications of Professor Abraham Weintraub for the post of Minister of Education, I take this opportunity to thank Professor Vélez for the services rendered," reported the retired captain on Twitter. Weintraub is an economist who has been deputy minister of the Civil House.

The fall of Vélez Rodríguez was not surprising given that Bolsonaro himself had announced it as imminent Friday, when he admitted that the former minister lacked political capacity. And shortly after, he admitted to feeling lost in the Plbadto since "I was not born to be president, I was born to be a soldier".

Born in Colombia, naturalized Brazilian, Vélez Rodríguez was a sympathizer of the former president Alvaro Uribe, as well as a disciple of the far-right writer Olavo de Carvalho, based in Virginia to the United States States, where he teaches online courses of philosophy "pocket".

Bolsonaro similarly thinks that Vélez Rodríguez about the coup of 1964 and the dictatorship that he directed until 1985: he did not present it for ideological reasons, but to calm the pressure of the army. It turns out that the generalate, probably the most powerful faction of Plbadto, is at war with the philosopher Carvalho and his godfather.

This fight became fiercer as Bolsonaro demonstrated his lack of authority in front of the generals, who were gradually conquering key areas of the administration.

The head of Vélez Rodríguez was also claimed by the opposition during a parliamentary hearing held on March 28. MPs said his leadership ordered the boys to recite the slogan "Brazil foremost, God foremost", which was the slogan of the Bolson campaign to run in the 2018 elections.

With the resignation of yesterday, there will probably be no significant change in the directives of the Ministry of Education, because the new Abraham Weintraub is as fundamentalist as Vélez Rodríguez, Olavo de Carvalho and Jair Bolsonaro.

His appointment was commemorated by MP Eduardo Bolsonaro, who, in addition to being the son of the president, maintains a fluid dialogue with the ideologue Carvalho. This statement and the reserved criticism expressed yesterday in the military indicate that new storms await the new leader.

Bolsonaro granted Weintrab wide powers to appoint his team of collaborators and, as it turned out, most of them are "ovalists" (Olavo de Carvalho).

The inflamed head of education is a neoliberal economist with financial market experience and no curriculum in education management.

In a recent interview, he said that Brazil, under the PT governments, was about to be under the control of "totalitarian socialist groups and defined as a" humanist, democratic, liberal (who) reads the Bible and I have it as a reference. "He rejected the" cultural marxism "that would have taken into account the universities and said he was ready to" fight for the country in which you live "so that It does not happen as in Venezuela that today is a colony of dictators who control Cuba. "