Jair Bolsonaro has appointed another military member for a key position at the Ministry of Education

The government of the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has appointed a retired Lieutenant General of the Air Force as the second head of the Ministry of Education, Given the erosion of the owner of this portfolio, the professor of Colombian origin, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez.

Lieutenant General Ricardo Machado Vieira, former presidential adviser, will become the new executive secretary of the ministry, according to was officialized this Friday in the official journal.

Vieira is the fourth person to be appointed since Bolsonaro badumed the presidency in January. TheThe predecessor of Vieira was fired after just eight days After having uncovered an old interview in which he defended an "education based on the word of God".

On Thursday, the president publicly questioned the portfolio holder of education, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, ensuring that "things do not work" within the ministry.

Local media said that the control of the Ministry of Education was an area of ​​conflict between the army and the acolytes of the far right philosopher. Olavo de Carvalho, considered the ideological "guru" of the "Bolsonaro clan", formed by the president and his children.

Vélez Rodríguez is linked to the philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, himself a interlocutor of the conservative American ideologue Steve Bannon, former campaign advisor to Donald Trump.

According to the newspaper State of São Paulo the appointment of Lieutenant Brigadier Machado Vieira supposes the weakening of Vélez Rodríguezthis can continue in the functions but without having the control of the ministry.

Bolsonaro is also a former far-right captain who has expressed nostalgia for the military dictatorship of 1964-1985 and gave a prominent role to several military in different ministriesIn addition to having General Hamilton Mourao as Vice President of the Republic.

Controversy around the commemoration of the coup d'etat

President Bolsonaro is also involved in a controversy surrounding the commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the 1964 coup that instituted a 21-year dictatorship in Brazil, but which the president denies.

On Friday, a Brazilian trial judge banned the government celebrations of the anniversary proposed by him. Ivani Silva da Luz, Brasilia, argues in his precautionary decision that the initiative of Bolsonaro "This is not compatible with the process of democratic reconstruction" advocated by the 1988 Constitution and that commemorative dates must be approved by Congress.

On Wednesday, the president said that there was no dictatorship in Brazil and that it was necessary "know the truth" during an interview on the television channel Bandeirantes.

"We must know the truth. No diet is wonderful. And where did you see a dictatorship deliver the government peacefully? It was not a dictatorship, "said the president.

In addition, the President admitted that the regime had "some problems"but it is an obstacle for Brazil not to go to socialism.