The president of the Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has appointed Friday, June 19, an actor of television series, Mario Frias, secretary of Culture, a month after the resignation of another star télénovelas, Regina Duarte, on a background of tensions with the leader of the extreme right.
Mario Frías, 48-year-old actor in the télénovela for teens Malhacao that takes place in the 1990s, will be the fifth to hold this post in 18 months of presidency Bolsonaro.
It replaces the actress Regina Duarte who had resigned in the wake of tensions with the head of the State. According to local media, she would have refused to undertake the crusade cultural against the ideas of the left as desired by the president.
A wave of resignations
She had already succeeded Roberto Alvim, sacked in January after having paraphrased a speech by Goebbels. She had been appointed to reconcile the government with the artistic environments
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The secretariat to the Culture, which was previously a ministry, has been relegated to the rank of a simple secretariat by Jair Bolsonaro, in the same way as Sports.
Other prominent members of the government Bolsonaro recently left the shipafter resignation or dismissal, including the minister of Justice Sergio Moro, and especially two ministers of Health in full pandemic coronavirus. And last Thursday, the minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, a staunch bolsonariste, has announced his resignation after a series of controversies.
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