• Brazil: Bolsonaro loosens ballast and gets rid of his controversial Minister of Education
  • Coronavirus.Jair Bolsonaro takes advantage of the pandemic to reinforce his radical project

Five days. This is what lasted the last Minister of Education of Brazil, Carlos Decotelli , who left office on Tuesday cornered by a scandal related to his academic resume. The problems started a few hours after President Jair Bolsonaro announced his appointment last week.

The University of Rosario (Argentina) denied that he had completed a doctorate there and assured that his thesis on the management of soybean prices was rejected. The University of Wuppertal (Germany) also denied that the ex-minister studied a post-doctorate between 2015 and 2017. He specified that he only stayed there for a few months in 2016, to participate in a specific investigation.

The drop that broke the glass, according to the former minister, came when the prestigious Getúlio Vargas Foundation, a private Brazilian university, also denied that he had worked there as a professor. "The structure of the destruction of continuity (as minister) came from the 'fake' fact that the FGV said that I was never a professor at the FGV," he told CNN Brazil.

After this latest information, Bolsonaro called him at the Planalto Palace and informed him that it was unsustainable for the Government to continue to be questioned due to the "inconsistencies in his curriculum vitae". Decotelli did not even take office.

Before all the controversy, his appointment had been received as a relief by the educational community, for his technical profile and away from more radical ideological positions. Until now, he was head of the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE), an autarchy in charge of most basic education programs in the country. In addition, he would have been the Afro-Brazilian Prime Minister of the Government.

Now it vacates one of the most coveted positions, reviving a dispute between the most extreme right wing of the Government, the military sector and the evangelical lobby that has already claimed two other ministers. Abraham Weintraub left office last week after numerous controversies and having generated massive protests with his intention of cutting the budget of public universities. He ended up quickly moving to the United States to try a position as a director at the World Bank, while the Federal Supreme Court investigates him for participating in a scheme of threats and dissemination of fake news against the country's democratic institutions. Prime Minister Ricardo Velez resigned in a few weeks, failing to control internal currents.

Meanwhile, students and teachers regret that nobody is talking about what the Bolsonaro government's proposal for education is , especially with all the doubts arising from the coronavirus pandemic. At the moment, in the first year and a half of Bolsonaro's administration, there have been very few concretions, beyond delegating the management of some public schools to retired military personnel or encouraging public universities to finance themselves with private resources.

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