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Bolsonaro Announces R$2.5 Billion from Petrobras for Education

By Arkady Petrov

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday, May 16th, that he expects to allocate R$2.5 billion (US$620 million) to the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology from penal fines paid by Petrobras. The number is higher than the R$1.7 billion allocated to federal universities.

The statement was released live on Facebook in the U.S. city of Dallas (Texas), where he was honored as "Personality of the Year". Standing next to the president were: Pedro Guimarães, president of Caixa; Admiral Bento Albuquerque, Minister of Mines and Energy; and . . .

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