{"id":46627,"date":"2018-09-03T12:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=46627"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:30:28","slug":"the-absurd-loss-of-the-national-museum-lifts-the-veil-on-brazils-political-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=46627","title":{"rendered":"The Absurd Loss of the National Museum Lifts the Veil on Brazil’s National Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the course of the week, RioOnWatch will be publishing a series of notes on the tragic fire that destroyed the National Museum<\/a> this past Sunday. The following note was posted on Facebook<\/a> by Tarcyla Fidalgo.<\/i><\/p>\n

Last night was difficult. I lost sleep, I lost my voice\u2014and for a few minutes, I lost my will. I don’t want to go on about the absurdity and sadness of the definitive loss<\/a>\u00a0of our\u00a0National Museum<\/a> to flames\u2014especially when it’s just the culmination of a process of corruption that has dragged on for years, experienced and repeatedly denounced by researchers, students, and staff.<\/p>\n

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The museum is lost\u2014perhaps it already was<\/a>\u2014but the symbolism of fire and the images generated are a very powerful and especially painful endpoint to 200 years of history<\/a>. But let’s not fool ourselves. Yesterday, not only did one of the largest collections in Latin America burn down\u2014but\u00a0a political project was set in motion<\/a> for a country that is determined to give up on science and knowledge, determined to forget its history, determined to condemn its future.<\/p>\n