Students facing Bolsonaro | They anticipated …

In the middle of a week in which Bolsonaro and his intimate band, which includes his four sons and their closest ministers, sparked quarrels between "almost everyone", which is already a way of governing , announced a strong educational budget adjustment As a result, educational institutions in each jurisdiction announce that they will only have resources to operate until September. In addition, he withdrew non-implemented but awarded research grants, which frustrated many students in their study projects.

The indignation in the educational community was immediate, universal and very energetic. Throughout the country, students gathered in bademblies within their institutions to organize their events. In some cities, they went out to demonstrate in the streets. Formally within the student organizations and informally through the networks, they expressed their willingness to fight. Teachers, formally and informally, have joined this movement. But he also received strong support from the society that does not fit the educational community, as actors and artists, some revealing supporting videos to broadcast. Everything was going to happen so that May 15 is the day of mobilization.

Is the reduction of education not seen as a measure of the economic environment but as a model of the country that the government wants to implement. Bolsonaro's popularity had already begun to drop soon after winning the elections in October, but in the past two months it has come in and halved from its entry into office in January. Education is essential because the sector closest to it, the government, has begun to express the need to "purge" educational institutions – universities and primary and secondary schools – from "the school". Communist influence ", in a crusade understood as such. any other thought considered as such. Near evangelical groups, students were encouraged to record and disseminate teachers who claim to be doing "indoctrination" in clbad – within a movement called "schools without party", called by its detractors "one-party schools". . Later, Bolsonaro directly attacked the humanities and social sciences fields as being useless for the country and the places of wrong thoughts. Lastly, last week caused outrage when he said that it had to end with "shit in the universities".

If Bolsonaro and his clan were examples of culture and morality, this advance might have been made differently. But he and his children are moving almost like a family autocracy, spreading insults and insults on Twitter daily, even against government ministers themselves. This is in addition to the shock that the "astrologer" Guru of Bolsonaro, the self-proclaimed philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, of his residence in the United States, has had against the great commandos of the army that are part from the government, in a burst of aggressive tweets so that the other. In the midst of the reduction of educational expenses and an equivalent of the military budget, the Bolsonaro clan celebrated the "Far West" project by intensively developing the right to carry and use weapons, including allowing minors to take shots. This is happening in a context in which more and more allegations that Bolsonaro's relationship with the Rio de Janeiro parapolice ("militia") has been denounced, notably denounced the brutal murder of Councilor Mirielle Franco . In fact, the court has just allowed the investigation of a son of the president, Flavio Bolsonaro.

The Brazilian month of May therefore engages in a discussion about the type of country that wants to hold "more weapons, no more education, yes." And the students say they intend to let the president know. We will have to see.

Andrés Ferrari Haines is a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. @Argentreother