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Brazil fires top culture official over Nazi-linked comments

by Associated Press
| January 17, 2020 2:35 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Outrage rained on Brazil's government from across the political spectrum after the culture secretary used language similar to that of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels in launching an arts initiative focused on nationalism and religion, leading President Jair Bolsonaro to fire him Friday.

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