A dictatorship that is a dictatorship attacks culture.

If anyone still doubted that we live under a dictatorship, just look at the Vampire's latest action: withdrawing money from Culture and the SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system), claiming he will invest it in public security.

What did the dictatorships known throughout history do when they seized power? They immediately attacked culture.

Why? Because culture is liberating. Culture brings knowledge, liberates the mind, makes you think, opens new paths, points out solutions.

Today, when the coup leader Temer issues Provisional Measure 841, drastically reducing the National Culture Fund's share of federal lottery revenue from 3% to 1%, he chooses as an alibi precisely the promise of a solution for public security because he knows that everyone is concerned about that.

It's populist!

He knows he'll convince part of the population that the switch is worthwhile because security is more important.

But only the naive and ignorant will believe this tall tale, that it is necessary to take from culture, and from the SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system), as the Provisional Measure foresees, so that everyone has more security.

In fact, cultural and creative activities currently represent 2,64% of GDP, generate one million formal jobs, bring together 200 companies and institutions, and grew between 2012 and 2016 at an average annual rate of 9,1%, despite the recession.

The conclusion is obvious: reducing resources for cultural policy encourages crime, not the opposite. More culture means less violence and more development.

A people without culture become doormats for their oppressors, unable to discern who the enemy is or where they are.

The enemy is this bandit, who, if he truly wanted to find new ways to finance public safety, should tax the great fortunes and collect the billions in taxes owed by large business owners and landowners in this country.

Early in his administration, Temer tried to dismantle the Ministry of Culture. He failed because the cultural community across the country rose up against the measure. Now he's back at it.

What good is a Ministry of Culture without a budget?

The time has come for the entire population to unite with the cultural and artistic community and once again occupy cinemas, theaters, concert halls, streets, and squares of this country, to combat yet another outrageous act by this marginal figure entrenched in the Presidential Palace.