Outrage after Brazil ministry asks schools to read aloud Bolsonaro slogan

New education minister admits ‘mistake’ after asking schools to film students singing the national anthem and as slogan is read

Brazil’s new education minister has been forced into a humiliating retreat after he asked schools in the country to film students singing the national anthem in front of a Brazilian flag and being read the campaign slogan of new far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro.

“I recognised the mistake,” Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez said on Tuesday, a day after the education ministry emailed his instructions to schools across the country – and provoked a storm of outrage.

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