The Minister of Education of Brazil has fallen, a denial …

From Brasilia

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

Jair Bolsonaro fired him Monday morning after a meeting off the program at the Palacio del Plbadto.

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 the candidates of Professor Abraham Weintraub for the post of Minister of Education, I take this opportunity to thank Professor Vélez for the services rendered," said the president via Twitter. Wintraub is an economist who worked until yesterday as Deputy Minister of Education.

The fall of Vélez Rodriguez 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 confessed to having felt the same 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 Vélez, as well as a disciple of the far-right writer Olavo de Carvalho, based in Virginia to United States, where he teaches philosophy courses "pocket" on the Internet.

Bolsonaro thinks the same thing as Vélez Rodríguez about the coup and the dictatorship: he did not throw him 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 war became fiercer when retired Captain Bolsonaro showed a lack of authority in front of the generals who gradually took over the essential points of the administration.

The head of Vélez Rodriguez 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 this Monday, there will probably be no major changes to the Ministry of Education, since the new Abraham Wintraub is at the height of the fundamentalist Vélez Rodriguez, Olavo de Carvalho and Jair Bolsonaro. He is an experienced economist in the financial market and without a program of studies in educational management. The burning official thinks that the universities and schools are in the hands of "Gramscian" teachers.

In a recent interview, he said that Brazil, under the PT governments, was about to be under the control of "totalitarian socialist and communist groups" and that he defined himself as a "humanist, democratic, liberal (who) reads the Bible and I have it as a reference".