1/ "President Jair Bolsonaro signaled on Tuesday that he would not sign Chico Buarque's Camões Prize diploma— the leading literary award of the Portuguese language."
www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/…
www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/…
2/ Chico Buarque de Holanda, a Brazilian poet and song-writer, considered one of the best poets in the Portuguese language, won the 2019 Camoes Award.
riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/ri…
riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/ri…
3/ The Camões Award, named after XVIth century Luis de Camões, the greatest poet in the Portuguese language, is awarded since 1989 to Portuguese writers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%C3%B5…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%C3%B5…
4/ Chico Buarque de Holanda has been an anti-fascist activist since an early age. His first songs were protest songs against the far-right Brazilian military dictatorship. 
5/ Far-right president Bolsonaro, coherent with his campaign promises to confront civil rights and bring Brazil as close as possible to the ideals of the 1964 Military Coup, which established the dictatorship, refused to sign Chico Buarque's Camões Award diploma.
6/ Given the importance of the award, the president's signature is a tradition that Bolsonaro is breaking. His anti-culture, anti-science and anti-education government, which has been defunding science and attacking culture, is determined to insult Culture and Civilization.
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