Students strike against Bolsonaro’s budget cuts

On Tuesday 18 October young Brazilians called for marches in dozens of Brazilian cities to reject far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, demand “education, transportation and democracy” and to show their support for Workers’ Party presidential candidate Lula da Silva, reports teleSUR.

The Brazilian Union of University Students (UBES), the National Union of Students (UNE) and the National Association of Postgraduates (ANPG) are carrying out protests in 21 states and the federal district. “One, two, three! Out with Bolsonaro, the enemy of Brazil!” was one of the chants that resounded in the student marches.

Thousands of citizens are mobilised against the US$460 million budget cut made by the education ministry at the beginning of October. This decision has immediate consequences on the functioning of Brazilian educational facilities. “It is unacceptable that educational institutions suffer budget cuts one after another. The Bolsonaro administration does not have a project to treat them as strategic entities for the country’s development,” UNE President Bruna Brelaz said.
Full report on the teleSUR site