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More than 500 artists, intellectuals and cultural producers issued a letter in reaction to the statements of the current special secretary of Culture Regina Duarte during an interview with CNN Brazil, which took place on Thursday 7, declaring that “it does not accept repeated attacks against art, science and the press, and that it does not admit the destruction of the cultural sector or any threat to freedom of expression.”
The group includes names linked to music, cinema, theater and literature. Among them are: Chico Buarque, Marco Nanini, Laís Bodanzky, Caetano Veloso, Denise Fraga, Luiz Fernando Veríssimo, Emicida, Celso Frateschi, Andrea Beltrão, Camila Pitanga, Adriana Esteves, Fernando Meirelles, Marieta Severo, Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, Zé Celso Martinez Corrêa ,, Marcelo Serrado, Maria Adelaide Amaral, Marília Gabriela, Marina Lima, Miguel Falabella and Rita Lee.
In the document, dated May 8, they are presented as “Brazilian artists” who are “part of the majority of citizens who defend democracy and support the independence of institutions to enforce the 1988 Constitution” and who “do not They tolerate crimes committed by any government, which repudiates corruption and torture and does not want the military dictatorship to return. ”
They also ask for “respect for the dead and those who fight for their own survival in a country devastated by the pandemic and the dire inefficiency of the government.” The letter ends by saying that the group “rejects the words and attitudes of Regina Duarte” and that “she does not represent us.”
Take a look at the full note, signed by over 500 artists:
“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. “
