Brazil minister quits over ‘Nazi’ quotes in speech

Brazil’s culture secretary Roberto Alvim resigned on Friday over a speech in which he appeared to quote Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. In a video, Alvim, a member of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, announced a new arts funding program to the background of music by Richard Wagner, a composer many associate with Nazism. “Brazil art over the next decade will be heroic and national,” said Alvim, sitting behind a desk as he stared intensely at the camera, with a picture of Bolsonaro behind him, a Brazilian flag to one side and two-barred cross to the other. Rodrigo Maia, the president of the House of Deputies, called for Alvim to be sacked over the speech, which lasted several minutes.

Source: AFP