Politics · Brazil · 2 hrs ago
Marina Silva criticizes bolsonarismo in post about children
Former Brazilian Environment Minister Marina Silva posted about children on X on October 12, Brazil’s Children’s Day.
She said children learn from what they see at home, in public and on television, and from what adults choose to celebrate.
Silva criticized bolsonarismo, saying it had chosen to put guns in children’s hands and call that freedom.
She said she supported a different path, with functioning schools, education and children being allowed to be children.
She also cited a Bible verse about teaching children.
The post connects how adults behave and what they promote with the kind of society children grow up in.
The sources do not say whether any action or response followed.
Former Environment Minister Marina Silva criticized bolsonarismo in a post on X for Children’s Day.
She said bolsonarismo had chosen to put a gun in a child’s hand and call it freedom.
Silva said she supported functioning schools, transformative education and children’s right to be children.
She quoted Proverbs 22:6, saying children learn from the example set by adults.
The post was published on October 12, 2026.
- Who
- Marina Silva, a former environment minister.
- What
- She criticized bolsonarismo in a Children’s Day post on X.
- When
- October 12, 2026.
- Where
- On X.
- Why
- She marked Children’s Day and argued that children learn from adults’ example.
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- Post date
- October 12, 2026
- Platform
- X
- Occasion
- Children’s Day
- Bible passage cited
- Proverbs 22:6
What people are saying
The bolsonarismo chose to put a gun in a child’s hand and call it freedom.
We believe in another path. In schools that work, in education that transforms, and in what the Constitution has always guaranteed: that children can be children.
Every child learns by example.
The good example is the path.
Sources
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