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Daniel Cara: Education cannot be a scapegoat for Bolsonaro's policies.

Professor and education activist Daniel Cara, general coordinator of the National Campaign for the Right to Education, refutes Bolsonaro's claim that education receives too many resources and says that the area "cannot be used as a scapegoat for Bolsonarism," nor as a "partisan instrument" to "persecute opponents."

Daniel Cara: Education cannot be a scapegoat for Bolsonaro's policies (Photo: Editora 247)

247 - Professor and education advocate Daniel Cara, general coordinator of the National Campaign for the Right to Education, spoke out against President Jair Bolsonaro's announcement of a "Lava Jato" operation for education. He refutes the claim that education receives too many resources and says that it "cannot be used as a scapegoat for Bolsonarism," nor as a "partisan instrument" to "persecute opponents."

In one sequence of posts on social media On this Carnival Monday, Bolsonaro threatened students, teachers, and school and university staff with an ideological "Lava Jato" operation. In his messages, he predicts resistance. "We know this could lead to strikes and coordinated movements." And he already announces repression.

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