Gleisi: ‘it is not up to the Navy to say who can or cannot be recognized as a hero by Congress and the Brazilian people’

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247 – The national president of the PT, federal deputy Gleisi Hoffmann (PR), published this Thursday (25) a message opposing the initiative of the Navy commander, Admiral Marcos Sampaio Olsen after he sent a letter to the presidency of the Chamber’s Culture Committee of Deputies disagreeing with the inclusion of the name of João Cândido Felisberto (1880-1969), leader of the Revolt of the Whip (1910), in the Book of Heroes and Heroines of the Fatherland – he was known as “Black Admiral”.

“To circumvent censorship in the 1970s and release the beautiful lyrics of ‘Mestre Sala dos Mares’, Aldir Blanc had to call João Cândido a ‘black navigator’ and not a ‘black admiral’, as the leader of the Revolt of In 2010, with the country in full democracy, Petrobras named the largest oil tanker built in Brazil, launched by President Lula, after João Cândido. It is not up to the Brazilian Navy or its commander to say who can or will. cannot be recognized as a hero by the National Congress and the Brazilian people. It is up to him to fulfill his role defined in the Constitution”, wrote the parliamentarian on the social network X.

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For the commander, the intention of including Cândido or “any other participant in that deplorable page of national history” would be like transmitting, especially to the military, the message that it is licit “to resort to the weapons entrusted to them to claim supposed individual rights or class”.

Senators approved the tribute to João Cândido and it is now debated in the Chamber. Federal deputies Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ) and deputy Benedita da Silva (PT-RJ) are the author and rapporteur of the project. The two are part of the same party as President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, responsible for nominating Olsen to head the Force.

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In 1910, Cândido, a black sailor, led a group of around 2,000 sailors in an uprising against precarious working conditions and physical punishment, especially the use of whips as a form of punishment. At the time, the Brazilian government officially abolished the whip as a form of punishment.