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CUT Union Federation turns 35 facing biggest fight ever
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The CUT has always been on the streets. We fought against the dictatorship, against the famine and are fighting against the Coup, which the media erroneously calls an impeachment. – Vagner Freitas

By Tatiana Melim

August 28, 1983. Military dictatorship in Brazil. The nation was embroiled in an economic and political crisis. Inflation hit 150% per year, the foreign debt reached $100 billion and unemployment and hunger grew as salaries lost more and more purchasing power.

It was in this context that over 5 thousand working class men and women from across Brazil met in a warehouse of the extinct Vera Cruz movie company in São Bernardo do Campo, in São Paulo’s ABC region. There, based on shared values of equality and solidarity, they founded the Unified Workers Central Union Federation (CUT), which is currently the largest union federation in Latin America and the world’s 5th largest.

The plan approved by CUT at the first CONCLAT/National Working Class Conference was to fight for an end to the National Security Law and the Military Dictatorship, to fight the government’s political economy, to end unemployment, and to defend agrarian reform built by the workers, quarterly salary adjustments, union freedom and autonomy.

As it has since 2016, on this Tuesday, August 28th, 35 years since its founding, the CUT faced a State of Exception and fight against an ongoing coup which removed a legitimately elected president from office, Dilma Rousseff, and has held the greatest popular leader in Brazilian history, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as a political prisoner for over 4 months.

On the historic day of CUT’s 35th anniversary, President Wagner Freitas spoke about its history and relevance to the fight against the coup.

“We were born out of the confrontation which helped defeat the Military Dictatorship and started the re-democratization process in this country. We built so much since then that the current coup, instead of destroying, further strengthened the Unified Workers Central, which has been at the forefront of all of the confrontations against the golpista’s attacks on social and labor rights.

“With 3980 affiliated unions, 7.9 million associated workers and a base support of 25.8 million people across Brazil, the CUT continues to be very important because it is an institution that was born out of the fight for the defense of democracy. There cannot be democracy in Brazil without the CUT and its unions guaranteeing that the working class are heard and respected. The CUT has never stopped defending the interests of the working class- this has been our historic commitment since our founding. Despite all that the golpistas have been doing since 2016 to destroy union structure and organization in this country, they have not succeeded and will not succeed in silencing our voices or impeding our struggle.



“The Brazilian people and the international community witnessed the CUT and its unions’ capacity to organize, mobilize and resist both before and after the coup.

“The CUT has always been on the streets. We fought against the dictatorship, against the famine and are fighting against the Coup, which the media erroneously calls an impeachment. It was not an impeachment because there was no proven crime of responsibility. On the streets, we built the biggest general strike in the history of the nation against retirement reform, on April 28th, 2017, when a general strike called by CUT and the other labor union federations paralyzed the country and mobilized 48 million workers. On that day cities across Brazil started the morning without any movement at all. Brazil froze. We are fighting the austerity reforms and the setbacks that are taking away rights from the working class on the streets and in the workplace. On the streets we defend public companies and banks and denounce the dismantling of social programs. On the streets we’ve fought and continue to fight against all types of injustice. On the streets we are defending the right for a worker to run for the Presidency of the Republic.


Empty, rush hour streets in cities across the nation during 2017 general strikeEmpty rush hour streets in cities across the nation during 2017 general strike

“October 7th, the day of the first round of the 2018 elections, is an important day for the working class to occupy the streets and write another chapter in Brazilian history. It is a moment in which we will be on the streets defending democracy during this, the most important election of our lives. It is an opportunity which we will have to recuperate the legal democracy in our country and elect Lula, who the Brazilian people believe is the best president in the history of the country.”

This article was translated from the Portuguese by Brasil Wire and can be read in its original form here.

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Lula Candidacy barred despite UN Ruling/International Uproar

Former São Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad expected to take Lula’s place amidst worries that any leading candidate from the left will be barred on frivolous charges in order to protect US-supported petroleum interests and austerity in Brazil’s post-coup State of Exception.

August 31. In a hurried ruling which bypassed legal protocols, the Brazilian Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) barred Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was leading by a wide margin in all polls, from running for President tonight in a 6-1 ruling. In citing a controversial law called ficha limpa designed to prevent convicted criminals from running for office (which is routinely ignored), the Court broke several laws of its own – most importantly MP 311/2009, which treats UN Human Rights Committee rulings as legally binding in Brazil. The UNHRC recently ruled that Brazil must respect Lula’s right to run for office.

The ignored UN ruling was applauded by a growing body of political leaders, intellectuals and labor unions from around the world demanding that Lula be freed from what is widely perceived as a political imprisonment designed to keep him from being elected to the Presidency. Organizations and individuals who have called for Lula’s freedom and for his right to run for office be respected in recent weeks include the AFL-CIO, COSATU, Angela Davis, Noam Chomksy, Former Prime Ministers Francois Hollande and Michelle Bachelet, Former German Social Democrat Party leader Martin Schulz, US Senator Bernie Sanders and 28 US Congressmen.

On August 31, a Brazilian bipartisan group of intellectuals and former Cabinet Ministers from the Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Lula administrations sent an open letter to Supreme Electoral Court Justice Roberto Barrosso requesting that he respect international law and allow Lula to run for President, which was translated by Brasil Wire as follows:

We, Brazilian citizens who have always participated in public life, have a common interest in democracy, the guarantee of human rights, the legitimacy of the State, and Brazil’s international credibility.

Your Excellency has vigorously professed humanistic values in the past. In your book, A Dignidade da Pessoa Humana no Direito Constitucional Contemporâneo (The Dignity of the Human Person in Constitutional Law), you state that, “the globalization of law is an essential characteristic of the modern world which promotes, in its current stage, a confluence between constitutional law, international law and human rights. The national and international institutions aim to establish a framework for a contemporary utopia: a world of democracies, fair trade and the promotion of human rights.”

In this context, Your Excellency has spoken out on some occasions about the importance of the Brazilian state in complying with decisions issued by international institutions arising from international human rights treaties welcomed by Brazil.

In the judgment of a Point of Order, in which you discussed the legality of the free candidatures in the Brazilian political system, Your Excellency reiterated the supra-legal nature of the San José, Costa Rica Covenant. In the same sense, when you were participating in a Federal Senate hearing, Your Excellency said that the current jurisprudence strategy in the Federal Supreme Court is that international treaties have a supra-legal nature; they are above the law.

On August 17th, 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee, a treaty body of the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, accepted the request for an injunction proposed by ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva through the intermediation of his lawyers. In the document of the High Commissioner of Human Rights which communicated the decision, it is emphasized that the Committee requests that the Brazilian State “take all necessary measures” to guarantee that the ex-President can exercise his political rights in the position of candidate – which included access to the press and members of his political party -”until his appeals processes in the court system are judged in a definitive manner in fair legal proceedings.”

We trust that Your Excellency, who has demonstrated a strong commitment with democracy and justice, will take these values into consideration while analyzing issues involving the candidacy of ex-President Lula.
Signed with assurances of the highest esteem and respect,
Sincerely,

Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, ex-Minister of the Treasury, The Federal Administration and The Science and Technology Ministry
Celso Amorim, ex-Minister of Foreign Relations and Defense
Luiz Felipe Alencastro, Professor at the University of the Sorbonne and Fundação Getúlio Vargas
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, President of the UN Investigatory Commission on Syria and ex-Minister of the Human Rights Secretariat
Maria Vitoria de Mesquita Benevides, Professor at Universidade de São Paulo
Dalmo Abreu Dallari Professor at Universidade de São Paulo
Fábio Konder Comparato Professor at Universidade de São Paulo
Pedro Celestino Pereira, Engineer

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“Fahrenheit 241″: A burning Museum became a ghastly symbol of post-coup Brasil

Brasil’s Education crisis is not a crisis, it is a project. – Darcy Ribeiro.

Across the political spectrum Brazilians will tell you that the principal problem in the country is education, yet who profits most from programmed, weaponised ignorance? Research, science, technology, culture, and education are not ideologies, but approaches and attitudes toward them in Brasil’s two bitterly opposed models of governance – Desenvolvimentismo and Entreguismo – come to the fore during moments of national angst like these.

The 200 year old Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro is both a symbol of Brasil’s history, and its chronic neglect of that history.

As the building burned on the evening of Sunday 2nd September, like the horrific Paysandu fire before it, the Museum quickly became a ghastly symbol of a pessimistic post-coup Brasil.

Yet its destruction follows that of a myriad of museums and historic buildings over past decades, such as São Paulo’s Instituto Butantã, Museu da Língua Portuguesa, Memorial da America Latina, Escola de Artes e Ofícios, and Museu do Ipiranga.

An important research facility, and former palace of the Brasilian imperial family, it is the oldest scientific institution in the country and home to much of Brasil’s cultural heritage. It housed some of the finest collections of South American history and pre-history. Most of the 20 million items it contained were reduced to ashes, including Luiza, the oldest human fossil found in Brasil, and the oldest human remains ever found in the Americas. Four frescoes from Pompeii’s Temple of Isis were also lost to the fire.

The blaze has left staff “devastated beyond comprehension”. Earlier in 2018 its director issued a grave warning that the facility now only had sufficient budget for “palliative measures” for the crumbling museum. A short time ago a budget had been allocated specifically for renovation and installation of fire prevention systems. The money disappeared into the black hole of local government.

While Rio de Janeiro’s brand new waterfront “Museum of Tomorrow” received millions in investment, the culturally, educationally and scientifically far more important National Museum struggled to cope on a shoestring. The annual budget for maintenance of the museum is 520 thousand reais, about 140,000 US dollars, whilst a federal judge earns 600 thousand reais a year, equivalent to US 150,000. This gives an idea of how savage the conditions of culture and science in Brasil now are. President Temer has continually raised Judges salaries since coming to power, and has been protected by the same Judiciary.



Government funding for National Council for Scientific and Technological Development 2001-2017
As the scale of the fire became clear, Carioca comedian Gregorio Duvivier invoked Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and its symbolism of fire and knowledge.

TV Globo presenter Alexandres Garcia invoked “rewriting history and burning the evidence”, yet it was unclear at whom his accusation was directed considering the organisation supported both Temer’s austerity programme and a military dictatorship notorious for its erasure of history. A Globo editorial also urged against “politicising” the disaster. Readers rightly asked how that could that be possible when the fire was borne of long term neglect, which had been exacerbated by Temer’s savage cuts to education, research and culture funding – rapidly wrought by his post-coup administration in 2016. This museum ablaze was distilled politics.

To the left the fire was a demoralising symbol of the coup, and Temer’s “programmed decay” caught in freeze frame.

Conservatives too sought to politicise the disaster, and blamed the previous governments of Lula and Dilma. Advocates of the minimal state and enthusiastic supporters of austerity also attempted to make political capital, arguing for the privatisation of cash-starved Federal Universitity of Rio de Janeiro, which operated the Museum.



Museu Nacional budget 2013-2018 (Note: 2015 figure was subject to 3 month congressional budget freeze, 2018 figure is until April only)
Meanwhile, Brasil’s infamous Isentistas suggested that “we are all to blame”. An article from 2004 warning of potential fire risk was evidence that all previous administrations bore equal responsibility, yet this hypothesis did not account for yearly funding increases until 2014. Another journalist drew attention to her work in 1991 on the subject, and yes, the budgetary cuts of the last two years have been far more brutal than anything seen since the era of Fernando Collor. A tragedy foretold indeed.

Although neglect does far pre-date the current administration (and that is inclusive of State and Municipal Government, not only Federal), funding for museums in general increased almost 1000% between 2001-2011. An allegation circulating in the aftermath of the fire that Dilma Rousseff bore equal responsibility as Michel Temer due to “cuts” in 2015 raises a crucial passage of history from the collective amnesia of the coup. At that time, though spending was being cut under new Finance Minister, Joaquim Levy, the museum’s funding was frozen because newly elected congressional president Eduardo Cunha, coup plotter and “national saboteur”, had blocked approval of the Governmental budget for three months (which accounted for at least 25% of the museum’s yearly budget). This manouvre was part of the opposition strategy to make it impossible for Rousseff to govern, which was initiated immediately after the 2014 election. The economic effects of this strategy successfully grew public support for her removal.

An actual R$20m plan for reforms to the Museum reached congress around this time and for some reason was never implemented, possibly because of this obstruction, or beyond that due to the freezing of construction projects by Operation Lava Jato. Therefore it can be argued that if we are to blame 2015 budgetary freezes for having contributed to the fire, then it is intrinsically linked with the coup itself, not just the discredited austerity policies that have followed under Temer.


Investment in Brazilian Museums between 2001-2011
During 2016, occupations of Ministry of Culture buildings throughout the country were a high profile front of resistance to the coup, as the incoming administration attempted to shut the department down.

With science and research funding decimated, culture disregarded and education investment frozen for 20 years under PEC241 – the “end of the world amendment” – it is entirely justified and understandable for an indignant population to process this tragedy as synonymous with the calamitous direction post-coup Brasil is taking.

Whether this particular horror has any impact politically is another matter entirely: although most have sought to capitalise, of the 2018 candidacies, only the PT and Rede manifestos already had any specific proposals for the protection of Museums.

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What the Empire Wants in Brazil
Posted by ALEXANDRA VALIENTE on SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Randy Alonso Falcón
Translation by Internationalist 360°



The electoral disqualification of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the final chapter (although not concluded) of the dirty political campaign against the Brazilian left, initiated with the spurious parliamentary-media-judicial process that took Dilma Rousseff out of the presidency.

The session of the Superior Electoral Court, which almost definitively removes Lula from the electoral contest, occurred on the same date that the coup against Dilma was consummated two years ago.

Premeditation and Treachery

As then, the maneuver has been based on assumptions and fabrications. “There is no justice for those who disagree with the chorus of the elites,” Brazilian journalist Fernando Brito said in an article in the digital newspaper Brasil 247.

The goal is to prevent at all costs a new popular government in the South American giant which is an obstacle to the pretensions of domination of the American empire and the objectives of appropriation of wealth by the local oligarchy.

“Now they are preventing Lula from being a presidential candidate because they know he would win the October elections. In Brazil, the media, in coordination with the Judiciary, have destroyed the Rule of Law, “ Argentine President Cristina Fernández wrote on her Twitter account.

Where is Washington’s Hand?

The story could be long, but let’s focus analysis on the most recent events. Edward Snowden’s revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency of the United States, which exposed a vast program of espionage on Brazil, are rarely remembered.

According to the American journalist Glenn Greenwald, in several articles he wrote on the subject for the Brazilian newspaper O Globo in July 2013, Brazil was the main target of the NSA’s espionage program in Latin America, which collected billions of electronic messages and telephone calls that passed through Brazil.

The leaked documents included the question; “Brazil, ally, enemy or problem?”, and revealed Washington’s concern about the impact that Brazil’s economic growth would have on the international political scene.

The National Security Agency had monitored four telephones in the office of President Dilma Rouseff and intercepted calls, electronic mail and text messages of the chief executive as well as communications of the personal advisor and secretary. Even the presidential plane was monitored. Few foreign leaders were under such extensive scrutiny by the empire.

US espionage also followed all communications from at least 29 members of the Brazilian government, including the head of the House of Government, Antonio Palocci, who later would be one of the stars of the denunciations awarded by the Brazilian justice. What led him to surrender?

The NSA also spied on all communications from the Brazilian state-owned company Petrobras, which had been boosted during the Lula and Dilma administrations. The former president of the company, Antonio Menezes, warned at that time of the “significant risk” that posed for free competition and for Petrobras if its development and methods were known in other countries, because they would be a “marked target” in the Strategic International Oil Board.

But beyond economic espionage, they used information obtained through surveillance to unleash the process of judicial warfare that led to the debarment of Lula, and that began precisely one year after the revelations of Snowden regarding extensive research against Petrobras and its contracts. Was the United States and its oil companies interested in dismantling the powerful Petrobras and the sovereign oil policy that been promoted by the PT governments?

The use of the judiciary is Washington’s favorite mechanism right now to attack leftist leaders in our region. They have applied this strategy against Dilma, Cristina, Correa and Lugo. Faced with the failures to impose their pawns via the vote, the United States resorts to other mechanisms to achieve its objectives.

This has not been the result of coincidence, but rather a strategy of penetration into the judicial entities of the region, under the assumed mantle of confrontating corruption. In recent years, the US Department of Justice, in coordination with universities, foundations and NGOs in that country, developed a training program for Latin American judicial boards through scholarships, seminars, workshops and other events.

A classified American diplomatic cable of 2009 obtained by Snowden, revealed by Wikileaks, evaluates a Regional Conference held that year in Rio de Janeiro to train police and judicial forces in crimes of illicit financing. The report states:“the investigation and criminalization of cases of money laundering, including cooperation between countries, confiscation of assets, methods to extract evidence, negotiation of delations …” and points further: “the Brazilian judicial sector is very interested in fighting terrorism, but needs tools and training to use force effectively (…) specialized judges will lead the most significant corruption cases involving individuals of hierarchy.”

One of the best students of that seminar was the current judge of first instance of Curitiba, Sergio Moro, the Paladin of the relentless persecution against Lula. Moro is the direct result of the Imperial Training Plan: a graduate of a course on transnational corruption at Harvard, a participant in events organized by the U.S. Department of Justice and frequent flyer to the northern country.

“Moro was trained in the State Department. He travels to America and knows how to win Washington’s approval,” the renowned Brazilian diplomat Samuel Pinhero Guimaraes said in an interview.

Significant is that while research on petrol and Odebrecht began in the state of Curitiba, with its award-winning series of denunciations, it was the US Department of Justice which revealed the keys to Odebrecht’s illicit operations in Brazil and nine other Latin American countries, and who imposed a fine on the Brazilian business giant for 3.5 billion of dollars. Why does the United States decisively intervene?



The Alcantara Space Base in the US Sight

The concerted onslaught of the media, the judiciary, the oligarchy and the Empire against Lula and its political force, although it has a significant social cost, gives juicy fruit to its promoters.

Washington and its allies have opened doors impossible to cross with a Lula government. They have managed to set up an agreement for at least 16 years to have an American presence at the Alcantara Aerospace Base, from which they had left in 2003 during Lula’s first government for concerns over national sovereignty. That was the most important goal that General Mattis, head of the Pentagon, had on his agenda during his recent visit to Brazil.

The Alcantara base, where the Brazilian space agency operates, is the only infrastructure for launching space rockets under the control of a sovereign country in South America. Specialists consider that the site has enormous advantages for space launches due to its proximity to the equator, where the speed of rotation of the earth is greater and more efficient takeoffs are achieved, with less fuel use and greater load capacity.

https://i2.wp.com/brazzil.com/wp-conten ... 417.jpgBut others stress that the true American objective is military, because of the possibility of having troops in an ideal space for political-military operations in South America and Africa, given the location of Alcantara in the Brazilian Northeast, compared to West Africa. It would also be a strategic enclave for its disputes against Russia and China.

For the former Minister of Strategic Affairs of Brazil (2009-2010), Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes Neto, “the main American objective is to have a military base in Brazilian territory in which they exercise their sovereignty, beyond the reach of laws and surveillance of the Brazilian authorities, including the military, and where they can carry all kinds of military operations.” The use of Alcántara by the United States is the “most flagrant case of cession of sovereignty in the history of Brazil.”

It is also remarkable that in 2017, for the first time in history, joint military operations between the United States, Brazil, Peru and Colombia took place in the Amazon, in a region rich in resources, biodiversity and water, whose control is desired by Washington.

For the renowned Mexican researcher Ana Esther Ceceña, the development of exercises such as the AmazonLog2017 makes it possible to “place war supplies that facilitate discrete territorial incursions, rapid response operations, both contemplating the intervention of special forces -whether they are American, local or private – or to allow more visible or scandalous massive operations, such as those under the auspices of alleged humanitarian dangers very likely in Venezuela”.

The leading Brazilian defense company, Embraer, closed an agreement in April 2017 with American Rockwell Collins in the aerospace area and the US Army’s Engineering, Development and Research command opened an office in Sao Paulo to deepen the relations of research and innovation of defense technologies.

Added to the US military assault in Brazil, is the large northern firms. Last July, Boeing’s purchase of 80% of Embraer’s well-known civil aircraft Division was concretized. The Brazilian company, which produced commercial, military and executive aircraft since 1969 and was the primary exporter in Brazil between 1991 and 2001, is the third aeronautical builder in the world and a kind of national identity, so there were major manifestations of indignation in Brazil over this transaction. “The scandal is because it is a symbol of Brazilian technological capacity, something like Petrobras, but in this case, a much more sophisticated industry,” said analyst Mario Osava.

Embraer, together with Canadian Bombardier, is the second largest manufacturer of 100-seat regional aircraft, a sector in which Boeing did not operate and therefore has an interest in the fast growing regional aircraft market in which it must compete with newcomers such as Russian United Aircraft, Japanese Mitsubishi and China Começ.

Boeing’s smaller aircraft, the 737-700 – with more than 140 seats – “fails to take advantage of the growth of demand among low-cost airlines or the increase in the number of smaller airports that do not receive large aircraft,” the business newspaper Valor pointed out.

As noted by those days in our Round Table, the former President Dilma Rousseff, was to deliver to a competitor one of the most valued assets and an industrial icon of Brazil.

Opening the Way for Transnational Takeover of Brazil’s Oil



The huge oil reserve of the Presal, the largest in the world, preserved by the PT government for its exploitation by Petrobras, has been opened by the government of Temer to foreign investment. It was one of the first steps after the coup d’etat against Dilma. The decision seeks to remove important functions from Petrobras and eliminate it as the main operator of the Presal basin so that large transnational companies can now manage the natural resources of the country.

A record 16 oil firms, including companies such as Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the US Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil Corp, the Norwegian Statoil and the French Total SA were registered for the auction last June of offshore blocks on the high seas where the equivalent of billions of barrels of oil are trapped under a thick layer of salt beneath the bottom of the ocean.

Temer has also announced major privatizations in 34 strategic sectors of the country, in an accelerated race of neoliberal restoration, applauded by the perverse local oligarchy and transnational powers. In negotiations or already sold, are 57 public companies, airports and ports are listed.

“The coup has taken Brazil away from its course. They are selling the public assets [with privatizations], they have decreed the end of workers’ rights [Temer’s labor and pension reforms] and they have cut investments in health and education for the next 20 years [by reforming the Constitution to impose a spending ceiling]. All that in a blatant, brazen way. To eliminate the harmful effects of this coup, we have to go to the polls,” Dilma told Spanish newspaper El País a few days ago.

“When they have nothing else to sell, they are going to sell their souls to the devil,” Lula said a few months ago to the Brazilian newspaper O Globo. Can you understand why the ex-union leader and flag bearer of the PT can not be permitted return power in Brazil?

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Manifesto of intellectuals and artists in support of Fernando Haddad and Manuela D'Ávila
September 24, 2018

Intellectuals and artists from Rio Grande do Sul launched a Supraparty Manifesto in Support of Candidatures of Fernando Haddad and Manuela D'Ávila. According to the text, "the crisis we are undergoing requires the courage to decide whether to maintain Brazil as a dependent and unequal country, with a political regime of intolerance and repression, or whether we will bet on the ability to make a civilizational leap and become a sovereign nation, with social inclusion and political democracy. "

Read the full note:

The crisis that Brazil is experiencing today in the economy, politics, institutions and ethics, with the advance of forces with fascist behaviors, has set before us a crossroads: to continue as a divided, increasingly intolerant and violent society, or to pacify and unite the country, with the understanding between the different social and political forces around a common nation project.

After a decade of asserting our sovereignty and important economic and social achievements, we are now a country in economic stagnation, under the control of financial speculation, submitted to the interests of large international corporations, and we are selling, vis-à-vis, important segments of national patrimony, among which oil, energy and minerals are the largest expressions.

We are the fifth-highest-income society in the world, with increasing levels of unemployment, poverty, crime and loss of rights resulting from the reforms and the freezing of social spending implemented by the Temer government.

The crisis we face requires the courage to decide whether to maintain Brazil as a dependent and unequal country, with a political regime of intolerance and repression, or whether we will bet on the capacity to make a civilizational leap and become a sovereign nation with social inclusion and political democracy.

For this, it is necessary a social and political understanding, with the participation of entities of businessmen, workers and different segments that compose the complex and diversified Brazilian civil society. This agreement will only be possible under the leadership of a president for whom democracy is a universal value, that respects all the different social and political forces and with them dialogue.

This leadership is Fernando Haddad, who, both in his administration in the Ministry of Education of the Lula government and in the city of São Paulo, as well as in all the debates he has participated in, has shown serenity, respect for his interlocutors, even the most intolerant and aggressive, and capacity for dialogue, while at the same time remaining firm in defending their positions.

Only with the dialogue, trademark of Haddad and Manuela, the federal government can build a base of support in the National Congress. For that, Haddad counts on the important parliamentary experience of Manuela, its vice president, who was councilman, state deputy and federal deputy, always elected with one of the largest votes in Rio Grande do Sul.

Having a law degree, a Master's degree in Economics and a PhD in Philosophy, Haddad has already demonstrated the necessary competence to formulate successful public policies. In front of the São Paulo City Hall, he was one of the four winners of the Best New Innovative Practices of the New Urban Agenda of UN Habitat. As Minister of Education, he created FUNDEB, expanding funding for basic public education for all basic education, and established the national floor for teachers.

Haddad also implemented the ProUni and expanded access to the FIES, installed 14 new federal universities and created the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology. At the end of its management, public investment in education rose from 3.9% to 5.1% of GDP.

For the construction of a national understanding, in a continental country such as Brazil, it is necessary to count on the participation of social organizations and parties from very different regions. In order to do so, it is essential to have the support of a nationally entrenched party structure and social organization. Haddad and Manuela have this support.

They are young leaders with a future perspective, rich political and administrative experience and strong democratic conviction. Therefore, we support your applications to lead the development project with social inclusion, national sovereignty and democracy that Brazil urgently needs.

Porto Alegre, September 2018

Following is the list of signatories presenting the manifesto, the links to the new signatures and also access to the full list of the initial 575 subscribers.

PRESENT THIS MANIFESTO:

Antonio David Cattani, professor of sociology at UFRGS
Ayrton Centeno, journalist and writer
Benedito Tadeu César, political scientist and professor UFRGS
Berenice Rojas Couto, PhD in social service, professor at the PUCRS Humanities School
Carlos Alberto Steil, anthropologist UFRGS
Carlos Alexandre Netto , university professor, former rector of UFRGS
Carlos Frederico Guazzelli, public defender, coordinator of the State Commission of Truth / RS 2012/2014
Carlos Henrique Kaipper, State Attorney of RS
Carmem Maria Craidy, Faculty Professor at UFRGS
Claudia Schiedeck Soares de Souza , former rector of the IFRS and professor of Campus Bento Gonçalves
Claudia Tajes, author
Claudia Wasserman, PhD and professor of history UFRGS, director of the IFHC
Cleber Fontinele Lima, pastor IECLB
Deborah Finocchiaro, actress
Deivison Moacir Cezar de Campos, PhD and university professor, coordinator of the Communication and Media area of ​​the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers
Demétrio Xavier , musician and communicator
Edgar Vasques, cartoonist
Eduardo Rolim de Oliveira, professor UFRGS
Eneas de Souza, an economist and film critic
Ezekiel Hanke, a member of the Ecumenical Forum and Interreligious RS, doctoral student in theology
Flavio Wolf Aguiar, writer, journalist, correspondent in Berlin for alternative media from Brazil, professor at FFLCH / USP
Francisco Milanez, UFRGS professor and former president of AGAPAN - Gaucha Association for the Protection of Natural Environments
Giba Assis Brasil, filmmaker
Gleidson Renato Martins Dias, public law specialist and member of MNU national coordination
Hans Alfred Trein, Lutheran confession theologian
Helgio Trindade , professor emeritus, former rector of UFRGS and UNILA and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC)
Horacio Dottori, professor emeritus of physics at UFRGS
Iara Ilgenfritz da Silva, criminal lawyer and professor of criminal law
Jacques Távora Alfonsin, lawyer, advisor juridical body of popular movements, member of the Consultative Council for Access to Citizenship and Human Rights
Jaqueline Moll, Professor Faced / UFRGS and URI
João Pedro Schmidt, political scientist and professor at the University of Santa Cruz do Sul
Jorge Almeida Guimarães, biochemist, professor emeritus of UFRGS, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and former president of CAPES
José Carlos Moreira da Silva Filho, researcher and professor of law
José Vicente Tavares dos Santos, sociologist, UFRGS
Júlio Xandro Heck, professor and rector of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology IFRS
Lucas Coradini, doctor and professor of political science, pro-dean of Education of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology from RS
Lucia Becker Carpena, flautist, professor at the UFRGS Institute of Arts
Luis Fernando Veríssimo, writer
Luiz Antonio de Assis Brazil, writer
Luiz Antonio Timm Grassi, civil engineer and bachelor in history
Magda Barros Biavaschi, discharger of TRT4, Ph.D. in labor economics and researcher at CESIT / IE / UNICAMP
Marcia Cristina Bernardes Barbosa, Professor at UFRGS and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC )
Maria Beatriz Luce, professor at the UFRGS Education School and former rector of UNIPAMPA
Maria da Graça Pinto Bulhões, sociologist and professor UFRGS
Mario Madureira, lawyer, former counselor of the OAB / RS and president of the Brazilian Association of Jurists Pela Democracia - RS
Mauri Cruz, socio-environmental lawyer, national director of Abong
Mercedes Maria Loguercio Cánepa, professor of political science UFRGS
Miriani Pastoriza, professor emeritus of Physics UFRGS and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC)
Nei Lisboa, musician
Ondina Fachel Leal, anthropologist, professor at UFRGS
Otto Guerra, filmmaker
Paulo Timm, sociologist and economist
Pedrinho Guareschi, professor and researcher at PPG de Social Psychology and Institutions of UFRGS
Raul Ellwanger, musician and composer
Ricardo Dathein, economist, professor at UFRGS
Romeu Fabris, entrepreneur
Rualdo Menegat, professor of geology at UFRGS
Santiago, cartoonist
Sergio Bampi, professor and researcher at UFRGS and former president of FAPERGS
Soraya Vargas Cortes, professor of sociology at UFRGS
Temístocles Cezar, Professor of the Department of History of UFRGS
Valério De Patta Pillar, professor of UFRGS and president of ABECO - Brazilian Association of Ecological Science and Conservation
Vinícius Teixeira Galeazzi, civil engineer
Walter Nique, professor of the School of Administration / UFRGS
Wremyr Scliar, jurist and professor
Zoravia Augusta Bettiol, visual artist, designer and art educator

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Bolsonaro on Brazil Polls: I Will Only Accept My Victory
Published 29 September 2018

Bolsonaro previously accused the Workers Party of plotting a corruption scheme to win the elections, prompting fears he may incite a coup if he loses.

Brazilian alt-right Social Liberal Party (PSL) presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, who has expressed admiration for the country's military dictatorship between 1964-1985 declared that he "will not accept an election result that is not my own victory."

“I cannot speak for the Armed Forces commanders, but from the support I see in the streets, I will not accept an election result that is not my own victory,” Bolsonaro said Friday in an interview with Band TV, from a hospital room where he is recovering from a stabbing three weeks ago.

When asked by the interviewer, the former army captain claimed that the argument wasn't anti-democratic, because "it is an electoral system that does not exist anywhere else in the world."

Bolsonaro has previously accused the leftist Workers Party (PT) of plotting a corruption scheme to win the elections, now prompting fears that the new remark is a warning that he may incite a military coup if he does not win. During Friday's interview, Bolsonaro, yet again, said that "only with fraud, there is no other way (that the PT wins), only with fraud."

"We (the armed forces) are the guarantee of the constitution, there is no democracy without armed forces," the former army captain, Bolsonaro, said during the interview. He later elaborated that, if he is president, he "would put the armed forces in the streets if there is a legal rearguard, and I'll put pressure to Congress for it. Or somebody from the other side (PT) has to tell us how to resolve the problem without shooting."

Regarding a military coup, Bolsonaro said "the armed forces wouldn't take the initiative, if the first mistake came from the PT, then it could happen, yes, a participation of the armed forces. But with the PT making the first mistake."

Fernando Haddad, the presidential candidate for the PT, who replaced former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, is in second place in the polls with 21 percent, trailing leading candidate Bolsonaro's 27 percent.

Bolsonaro, who has been criticized nationally and internationally for sexist, homophobic, racist and authoritarian comments, will contest the election with vice-presidential running-mate, military General Hamilton Mourao.

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/ ... -0002.html

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Lula's letter to PT militancy

September 30, 2018
Companions and companions of the PT,

We are reaching the final stretch of one of the most important election campaigns in our history. We are fighting for the rights of the people, for the sovereignty of the country and even for the reestablishment of democracy.

We are fighting for our dignity and the freedom of the people.

I was arbitrarily prohibited from disputing this election, as was the desire of the majority. But if injustice closed the door of my candidacy, the people are opening another, which is the candidacy of comrade Fernando Haddad.

He represents me in this election and, I am sure, will take care of our people with affection, as I have always cared for.

That is why I ask you to fight hard for the election of Haddad. Leave home every day to campaign and ask for it. Do it for him as if it were for me.

Once again, the victory will depend a lot on the grip and commitment of each militant. This is the difference that has always made us grow at decisive moments. Only PT has this militancy that is the soul of our party.

Let's go together, comrades and comrades, to win again.

A hug with a lot of affection from

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PT Note: Bolsonaro Box 2 Fund Lies Industry in Networks

October 18, 2018



Folha de S. Paulo's report on Thursday (18) confirms what the PT has been denouncing throughout the electoral process: the campaign of Deputy Jair Bolsonaro receives illegal financing and millionaire of big companies to maintain a industry of lies in the social network Whatsapp.

At least four companies were hired to fire offensive and lying messages against the PT and candidate Fernando Haddad, according to the report, at prices that reach $ 12 million. The lies industry uses telephone numbers abroad to make it difficult to identify and circumvent the rules of the social network.

It is a coordinated action to influence the electoral process, which can not be ignored by the Electoral Court or go unpunished. The PT requested yesterday, to the Federal Police, an investigation of the criminal practices of the deputy Jair Bolsonaro. We are taking all legal measures to respond to his crimes, including the use of cash 2, because the millionaire expenses with the industry of lies are not declared by his campaign.

The criminal methods of Deputy Jair Bolsonaro are intolerable in democracy. Brazilian institutions have an obligation to act in defense of the smoothness of the electoral process. Social networks can not passively watch its use to spread lies and offenses, becoming accomplices of the manipulation of millions of users.

The PT will bring these serious complaints to all levels in Brazil and in the world. More than the result of the elections, what is at stake is the survival of the democratic process.

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Psyops: Images from Bolsonaro’s illegal WhatsApp campaign

Bolsonaro’s illegal slush-fund financed social media campaign appears too sophisticated for his tiny political party to be doing on its own.

By Brian Mier

On the Friday before the October 7 Brazilian presidential elections, Brasil Wire ran two articles that proved to be prophetic. In the first I warned that the integrity of the election was being compromised by presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s use of thousands of WhatsApp groups of 256 people each to spread hate speech, lies and character assassination against PT presidential candidate Fernando Haddad and his running mate Manuela D’Àvila. In the second article Marcelo Zero spoke about how international intelligence agencies use the internet to disseminate false information and destroy the reputation of their targets. “this isn’t just any type of information,” he said, “the information is chosen to cause great emotional impact, not to promote debate or rebut concrete information.” Zero argued that, due to the previously disorganized nature of Bolsonaro’s tiny PSL party, it was fair to assume that support for his social media campaign was coming from foreign intelligence agencies.

On October 7th Bolsonaro outperformed all predictions by a wide margin and came close to winning the election in the first round. The previously unimportant PSL party gained 44 new congressional seats and passed up Brazil’s big three conservative political parties, DEM, MDB and PSDB to become the second most powerful party in the House of Representatives. Then, on October 18th, a bomb dropped. Folha de São Paulo reporter Patricia Campos Mello revealed that a group of business elites had helped the Bolsonaro campaign create an illegal slush fund worth several times more than his official campaign fund. This money was channeled into 4 companies that sold private information and phone numbers of huge groups of WhatsApp users and helped them target specific segments of the population, like evangelical Christians and North-easterners, with a non-stop barrage of lies and misinformation which was planned to greatly intensify the week before the final elections. As Ms. Mello received death threats from Bolsonaro supporters, the Brazilian Federal Police launched an investigation and the Supreme Electoral Court, which has already violated Brazilian laws by refusing to let Lula run for president or speak to the press, announced that it too would investigate the issue. The Court postponed its first press conference and it is now expected that, with the support of Brazil’s most powerful man, General Sergio Etchegoyen, it will disobey Brazilian law once again and refuse to bar Bolsonaro’s candidacy.

But how could a medium like WhatsApp be used so effectively to propel a politician who, before Lula’s candidacy was barred, had support levels hovering in the mid teens? Here are a few examples of the illegal campaign of lies and slander his organization used to bombard the Brazilian people, with the apparent support of Steve Bannon.



D'Ávila was actually wearing a T-shirt that said, "fight like a girl".D’Ávila was actually wearing a T-shirt that said, “fight like a girl”.
A slickly produced video alleging that, as Mayor of São Paulo, Fernando Haddad distributed “erotic baby bottles” to toddlers in the public preschool system, which reached 3 million people before being pulled off of YouTube.


Still from video which used a sex-shop gag item to make slanderous claims about Fernando HaddadStill from video which used a sex-shop gag item to make slanderous claims about Fernando Haddad

As over 1 million people took to the streets in hundreds of Brazilian cities and 20 countries around the world in #Elenão #Nothim protests against the misogynist candidate, the Bolsonaro campaign bombarded millions of evangelical Christians with photos from earlier slutwalk (Marcha das Vadias) protests, spreading the misinformation that they were taken during #EleNão. This move caused a 5% rise of support for Bolsonaro in the polls, and polls show the spike was mainly caused by evangelical christian women.


"Feminists call themselves sluts and go out naked in public. And you think Bolsonaro is the one denigrating the image of women?"“Feminists call themselves sluts and go out naked in public. And you think Bolsonaro is the one denigrating the image of women?”

Throughout the campaign great effort has been made to apply the fascist tradition of myth building to bolster Bolsonaro’s image. The neofascist military dictatorship period is portrayed as a utopia, despite the fact that corruption was higher then than it is now, and only 60% of Brazilian children had access to the public school system. Bolsonaro is portrayed as a mythic hero – an outsider who is going to drain the swamp of the corrupt communists of the PT. This image shows a PT monster with Fernando Haddad’s face which also has the head of Michel Temer on it, and only a wounded Bolsonaro between it and the Brazilian people. Ironically, it was Bolsonaro who was one of Temer’s most vocal supporters during the coup of 2016, and he has voted with Temer’s coalition on every piece of legislation since then, including all of the deep austerity reforms.


Building the myth that a 7 -time congressman is a political outsiderBuilding the myth that a 7 -time congressman is a political outsider
These four images are examples of the types of messages that have literally brainwashed a large segment of the Brazilian people into believing that Fernando Haddad is a communist, that the PT party will create a government commission to declare children’s gender when they reach the age of 5, and that the Military Dictatorship period was the most wonderful time in Brazilian history. Their use violates Brazilian laws against illegal campaign financing, dissemination of hate speech and slander. In a reaction to the first round election results and a recent New York Times editorial, Facebook company has already enacted a palliative measure of banning all WhatsApp groups over 20, which will cripple further efforts to expand this well-funded psyops operation. Much of the damage, however, has already been done, including the election of 51 members of Bolsonaro’s party to Congress, most of who are crypto-fascist, evangelical military officers, preachers and third rate celebrities, including former porno actor Alexandre Frota, who bragged about raping a black woman and leaving her unconscious on live national TV two years ago. If the Supreme Electoral Court refuses to act on this or stalls until after the elections, as many people believe will be the case, it will be one more ugly episode in the breakdown of the Brazilian rule of law since the 2016 coup.

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Accused Of Electoral Fraud, Bolsonaro Could Face Disqualification

By Lu Sudré.
An investigative story published by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo today proves that companies are paying for WhatsApp bulk messaging services to spread fake news and attack ads against the Workers’ Party (PT). According to the article, companies are planning a big operation for the week before the runoff election in Brazil, which will be held on Oct. 28.

The companies are supporting the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro and using lists of mobile contacts sold by digital strategy agencies and also the presidential hopeful’s own database. The law, however, only allows candidates to use their own lists of contacts provided voluntarily by individuals.

To send hundreds of millions of messages, contracts are worth as high as R$12 million (more than US$3.2 million). One of the companies hiring these services is Havan, owned by Luciano Hang, who has reportedly been forcing his employees to vote for Jair Bolsonaro. Hiring this kind of services can be considered illegal campaign contributions from corporations if they are proven to have links with the Social Liberal Party candidate.

João Meira, who holds a master’s degree in Political Law, explains that the elections could be annulled due to illegal campaign practices and abuse of economic power.

Meira argues that, with a fierce WhatsApp campaign and the “industry of lies” established around it, it is virtually impossible to control what kind of content is shared and, if the accusations are proven true, “the fraud completely taints the election process.” “If Bolsonaro and his campaign are proven to be associated with the actions of those groups of people who committed unlawful acts, even if he is elected, he can be impeached and be ineligible to run for eight years,” the expert says.

While some of the agencies reported to be sending mass WhatsApp messages include Quickmobile, Yacows, Croc Services, and SMS Market, Bolsonaro’s financial disclosures only include the company AM4 Brasil Inteligência Digital, which was paid R$115,000 (nearly US$31,000) to provide digital media services.

According to Folha, the services are between R$0.08 and R$0.12 (US$0.02-0.03) per message sent to contact numbers from the candidate’s own list and R$0.30 to R$0.40 (US$0.08-0.11) per message when the list of contacts is provided by the agency. The agencies also offer segmentation by region and even income.

Strategies

Folha reported that one of the strategies used by Bolsonaro’s campaign is automatically generating foreign phone numbers through websites such as TextNow. The article also mentions that the contact databases are often provided illegally by debt collection companies or employees who work at phone companies.

Using international calling codes, the administrators can dodge spam filters and restrictions imposed by WhatsApp, such as the limit of 256 members in a group or automatically sharing a message to no more than 20 people or groups.

The Workers’ Party candidate, Fernando Haddad, has been the primary target of fake news shared through WhatsApp in the 2018 elections. The presidential hopeful said he will file complaints against the accused companies, arguing the episode shows, once again, that Bolsonaro does not respect democracy.

“We are going to ask the electoral court and the Federal Police to immediately arrest these corrupt businesspeople in order to stop [them from sending] these WhatsApp messages. They have names of owners, names of companies, contracts, the amount of slush funds – which is an election offense. He [Bolsonaro] is dodging [the presidential] debates, but he cannot dodge justice,” Haddad said.

The Workers’ Party released a statement calling the Federal Police to investigate “Bolsonaro’s criminal activities.”

“It’s a consorted action to influence the electoral process that the electoral courts cannot overlook or leave unpunished. We are taking all legal measures so that he is held accountable for his crimes, including using slush funds, because the millions spent on the industry of lies are not included in his financial disclosures,” the statement reads.

“Congressman Jair Bolsonaro’s criminal methods cannot be tolerated in a democracy. The Brazilian authorities have a duty to make sure the election process runs smoothly. Social media companies cannot just passively watch their services being used to spread lies and offenses and become accomplices in the manipulation of millions of users,” the party wrote.

Havan did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

http://www.brasilwire.com/accused-of-el ... ification/

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Meet the 3 Generals Shaping Bolsonaro’s Platform

As fascist mob violence against gays and leftists increases, 3 generals whose careers were forged during the Military Dictatorship are helping the Brazilian far-right candidate design an ultra-neoliberal governmental platform

by Rafael Tatemoto*

Brazilian army officers have been playing an increasing role the building of far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s platform. Three generals are now working on his economic and infrastructure plans: Oswaldo Ferreira, Augusto Heleno, and Aléssio Ribeiro Souto.

Having the three military Generals engaged in Bolsonaro’s program for government means they share the same views as his most important economic adviser, Paulo Guedes. The ultra neoliberal guru is being investigated by Brazilian authorities over accusations of engaging in a R$1 billion ($268 billion USD) pension fund investment fraud, at the same time that he is reportedly in charge of all important elements of Bolsonaro’s program, including controversial proposals such as setting a flat, 20-percent income tax rate, which would reduce taxes on the rich and significantly increase them on the poor.

While Guedes operates in Rio de Janeiro, the military group is working in Brasília. All three generals have a common influence: General Golbery do Couto e Silva, a key actor in the 1964 Military Coup. Research papers produced by the three Generals at the Brazilian Army Command School show how their views about geopolitics have been influenced by the Golbery’s national security doctrine, which was based on the idea of a “domestic enemy” that has to be eliminated. The following is an introduction to each of the three Generals who are now working with Bolsonaro.

Augusto Heleno Ribeiro Pereira

Bolsonaro’s first option for a running mate, he ultimately did not run for vice president because his party, the Progressive Republican Party (PRP) did not formally enter in coalition with the presidential candidate’s Social Liberal Party (PSL). The former Brazilian operation commander in Haiti, he also wields major influence in the candidate’s public security plan, standing for topics such as lowering the nation’s age of criminal consent. But the general is playing down the role of Bolsonaro’s government program, arguing it is “nothing but a protocol of intentions.” “It does not make sense while you don’t have an appointed minister. The programs will really be created during the two months between the election [on Oct. 28] and the inauguration, in January,” he said.

Oswaldo Ferreira

Ferreira is slated as Bolsonaro’s probable Transportation Minister and stands out as the primary military officer for infrastructure projects. He advocates the relaxing of environmental regulations during public works and, in synch with Bolsonaro’s platform, supports eliminating the Ministry of Environment and moving its operations to the Ministry of Agriculture, which has been historically controlled by the agribusiness lobby. He once said that, back in his day, “there were no public prosecutor’s offices or environmental protection agencies to bust our balls,” during highway construction projects in the Amazon during the military dictatorship.

Aléssio Ribeiro Souto

He specialized in technology during his studies at the Brazilian military academy and ran the Army Technology Center between 2006 and 2009. When it comes to education policies, he says teachers’ pay is not a priority: “There are several aspects regarding the appreciation of teachers. The fifth or sixth is the wage issue,” he said. Souto argues that the ousting of João Goulart was not a military coup and that “books that don’t tell the truth about the 1964 regime have to be eliminated.”

Edited by Tayguara Ribeiro

*This article was originally published in Brasil de Fato, and was further edited slightly by Brasil Wire for readability. The original article can be seen here.

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Bolsonaro plans to charge tuition at federal universities

October 22, 2018
It is already obvious that education is not a priority for Jair Bolsonaro. The candidate threatens public education from basic education to higher education.

Bolsonaro's team defends the tuition charge in public universities of the country, claiming excessive spending. Now, the candidate for education of the candidate proposes to reduce more than 50% in the budget of higher education in Brazil. If Bolsonaro is elected, university doors were closed again in the face of the poorest youth in the country, which in the years of PT governments experienced the greatest expansion of higher education positions in the country's history.

According to the president of the National Association of Directors of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (Andifes), Reinaldo Centoducatte, "this will not solve the problem. For starters, the strategy is based on misconceptions, "he says. Andifes study released in 2016 shows that two out of three students from federal universities are class D and E. The study, based on 2014 interviews with undergraduates, showed that 66.2% of students came from families whose income did not exceeded 1.5 per capita minimum wage.

For him, the measure can reduce access to higher education and, thereby, restrict the chances of the country becoming competitive. "The demands in the labor market are getting bigger every day. You have to open, do not close doors. "

The proposal for collection, which would depend on an amendment to the constitution, since free education is guaranteed constitutionally, in theory would be for students of "higher income" - although it does not specify the income range, the cut or the possibility of provision of scholarships.

Bolsonaro's government program proposes distance education for children, especially for rural children, as a solution to the long distances faced by children. But the Jair solution is always more education, not less. More schools, not less. Children should have a book in one hand and a chalk in the other, not guns in their hands from the age of five, as you did with your own children.

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