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May 17, 2019

Brazilian Teachers and Students March Against Education Cuts
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In Brazil, tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers
rallied in cities across the country Wednesday to protest government
cuts to education. Far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has promised to
slash funding to federal universities by about $1.8 billion dollars,
while freezing thousands of post-graduate scholarships. This is São
Paolo student protester Vania Cristina.

Vania Cristina: "With these cuts to federal university funding, we must
make noise. People need to show the importance of science and education.
As we are saying, there is money for the militia but not for education.
People will fight for education."



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