Rio de Janeiro will remove a bust of Father Antonio Vieira after passing a law that prohibits the municipality from erecting or maintaining statues, monuments and plaques to defenders of slavery, local press reports.
The preliminary list compiled by Councilor Monica Benicio, one of the authors of the bill, included in the list of statues that would have to be demolished, in addition to those of Father Antonio Vieira, the statue of Marshal Luis Alves de Lima and Silva, Duque de Caxias, the patron of the Brazilian army, whom historians consider a racist and the author of the massacre of blacks, the newspaper Folha de São Paulo detailed.
The listing also mentions a statue of General Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, the first of five soldiers who ruled Brazil during a dictatorship established between 1964 and 1985 and accused of human rights abuses.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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