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A group of 512 actors, musicians, writers and other professionals linked to the cultural industry signed a manifesto criticizing Regina Duarte, Bolsonaro’s special secretary for culture.
This Thursday (7), in an interview with CNN Brazil, Regina Duarte downplayed the deaths, torture and censorship during the period of the military dictatorship. The secretary even downplayed press coverage of the deaths caused by covid-19 and was irritated live with a video by Maitê Proença, in which the actress criticizes the management of culture by the current government.
“As artists, intellectuals and cultural producers, we form a majority that rejects the words and attitudes of Regina Duarte as Secretary of Culture. She does not represent us,” says the manifesto (read the full document at the end).
The secretary’s interview had negative repercussions from various artists in recent days. On social networks, Bruno Gagliasso, José de Abreu and youtuber Felipe Neto, among others, had already criticized Regina Duarte’s position.
The list is made up of artists, intellectuals and cultural producers. Among the 512 signatories are:
The actors Adriana Esteves, Alice Braga, Ana Lúcia Torre, Cauã Raymond, Malu Mader, Marcelo Serrado, Marieta Severo, Marisa Orth, Miguel Falabella, Monica Iozzi, Paulo Betti, Renata Sorrah and Selton Mello;
The musicians Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Dinho Ouro Preto, Emicida, Fafá de Belém, Lulu Santos, Rita Lee and Samuel Rosa;
The novelists Daniel Ortiz, Licia Manzo and Walcyr Carrasco;
The journalists Edney Silvestre, Juca Kfouri and Marília Gabriela;
The writers Antonio Prata, Ignacio de Loyola Brandão, Julián Fuks, Luiz Fernando Veríssimo and Mário Prata;
Filmmakers Anna Muylaert, Fernando Meirelles, Jorge Furtado and Lais Bodanzky;
Presenters Astrid Fontenelle, Fábio Porchat and Marcelo Tas
Anthropologist Lilia Schwarcz, philosopher Marcia Tiburi and theater director Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa
Read the full manifesto:
Brazil, May 8, 2020
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.
