Brazil culture secretary fired after echoing words of Nazi Goebbels
(The Guardian Brazil)

Roberto Alvim set off a storm of outrage with comments about culture that were eerily reminiscent of Hitler´s propaganda chief`Like going back 40 years´: dismay as Bolsonaro backs abstinence-only sex edBrazil´s culture secretary, Roberto Alvim has been fired after he appeared to paraphrase the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in an online video to promote a national arts prize.`Brazilian art in the next decade will be heroic and national,` said Alvim, to the music from Wagner´s Lohengrin, said to be Hitler´s favourite opera, with a portrait of the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, and a Brazilian flag in the background. Related: `The government is strangling cinema´: Brazil film industry fights for survival Related: `Unqualified, dangerous`: the oddball officials running Bolsonaro`s Brazil Continue reading...