Brazil fires top culture official over Nazi-linked comments
(World News Brazil)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Outrage rained on Brazil`s government from across the political spectrum after the culture secretary used language similar to that of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels in launching an arts initiative focused on nationalism and religion, leading President Jair Bolsonaro to fire him Friday. The parallels between Thursday`s remarks by Roberto Alvim, who had held the culture post only since November, and those of Goebbels in the 1930s drew irate reactions from Jewish organizations, key lawmakers, political parties, artists and Brazil`s bar association. Bolsonaro is normally defiant in the face of criticism, but he quickly removed Alvim. The far-right president, who often...