In a pair of his first policy-oriented messages as the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro said his administration will target the “Marxist garbage” within his country’s education system.
Bolsonaro issued the messages one day after declaring in his inaugural speech that his election victory liberated Brazil from “socialism and political correctness.”
Bolsonaro’s decision to tackle the system likely isn’t accidental. The international communist movement selected Brazil’s education system as the primary target for infiltrating the nation, according to Jeff Nyquist, an author who has interviewed experts on the issue in Brazil and the United States.
“It’s even deeper than in the United States and that’s saying a lot,” Nyquist said, referring to the socialist penetration of Brazil’s education system. “Some of the same programs that the far-left has introduced into the U.S. education system, they’ve introduced in Brazil. They went for education first there.”
Vélez-Rodriguez views Brazil’s conservative Schools Without Political Parties movement as part of the solution. A bill with a similar title has been in Brazil’s Congress since 2014. The law would forbid certain topics–including politics, sexuality, and gender theory–from classroom discussion.
“They control all the media, with one or two small exceptions. They control all the universities. They control all the cultural institutions. They control practically everything,” de Carvalho said of the communists in Brazil.
According to Nyquist, loosening communism’s grip on Brazil’s education system will be easier to carry out than in the United States. In Brazil, the government is much more centralized, which will allow Bolsonaro to swiftly affect significant change. In the United States, the public school system is controlled largely at the state and local level, with the federal Department of Education having little overall influence, Nyquist added.
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