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RIO – This Saturday a manifesto was published with the signatures of 512 artists to repudiate the controversial interview that the special secretary of Culture Regina Duarte gave to a television channel last week. During her live testimony, the actress paid little attention to the deaths that occurred during the military dictatorship, claiming that the Covid-19 pandemic “brought a lot of morbidity and even cited genocidal dictators like Hitler and Stalin.
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“As artists, intellectuals and cultural producers, we form the majority who repudiate Regina Duarte’s words and attitudes as Secretary of Culture. She does not represent us, “says an extract from the letter, which was also signed by Chico Buarque, Malu Mader, Caetano Veloso, Luis Fernando Verissimo, Paulo Betti, Renata Sorrah, Miguel Falabella, Cauã Reymond, Fafá de Belém, Antonio Prata and Fábio Porchat, among others.
Shortly after the interview aired Thursday, several artists had already criticized Regina on their social media channels. “” The culture secretary reappeared nervously and harshly, as does her boss, a good student, right? “Zélia Duncan posted on her Twitter account.
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Read the full manifesto, signed this Friday, below:
“We are Brazilian artists and we are part of the majority of citizens who defend democracy and support the independence of institutions to enforce the 1988 Constitution.
We are part of the majority that understands the seriousness of the moment in which we live and ask for respect for the dead and for those who fight for their own survival in the country devastated by the pandemic and the dire inefficiency of public power.
We are part of the majority of Brazilians who do not tolerate crimes committed by any government, who repudiate corruption and torture, and who do not want the military dictatorship to return.
We are part of the majority that does not accept repeated attacks against art, science and the press, and does not accept the destruction of the cultural sector or any threat to freedom of expression.
As artists, intellectuals and cultural producers, we form a majority that rejects the words and attitudes of Regina Duarte as Secretary of Culture. It does not represent us. “
