Brazil singers stage concert to protest acting president

Brazil singers stage concert to protest acting president

Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

Updated 6:23 pm, Saturday, May 21, 2016

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Grammy award-winner Caetano Veloso added his voice to a growing numbers of artists and musicians rejecting Brazil's interim government, holding a concert in a building occupied by protesters.

About 2,000 people gathered Friday night for a musical performance by Veloso and other singers in protest against acting President Michel Temer and his decision to abolish the country's Culture Ministry.

Veloso got the crowd singing the slogan "get Temer out" and performed a song called "Odeio," or "I hate" in English, with spectators completing the phrase with the interim president's name. "The Culture Ministry is ours," Veloso said. "It is an accomplishment of the Brazilian state. It doesn't belong to any administration."

Last week Temer decided to fold the Culture Ministry into the Education Ministry under the control of a conservative politician who has no experience in either area. On Saturday, Education Minister Mendonca Filho announced that the government would reverse course and re-establish the Culture Ministry.

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