Re: Brazil
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:36 pm
PT Manifesto: The institutional crisis is the result of the coup
April 18, 2019
Six months after an absolutely out of court electoral process, in which the candidate for president of the majority of the population was arbitrarily excluded and the debate on proposals was banned, Brazil is currently experiencing a very serious political and institutional crisis.
The harmonious relationship between the Powers, established by the Constitution, gives way to force blows and institutional anarchy, amid an escalation of authoritarianism, reaffirmed on Wednesday (17) by the call of the National Security Force to Brasilia to repress legitimate manifestations of indigenous peoples in defense of their threatened rights.
Brazil is reverting to a past of repression, censorship and intolerance; to the times when the state, in the service of the ruling classes, denied freedoms rather than guaranteed them. The political, corporate and even personal differences in which the heads of the Executive, the Legislative, the Judiciary and the Public Prosecution are involved, occur under the interference and even under the tutelage of reactionary leaders of the Armed Forces, which is unacceptable in democracy.
Today there is no doubt that at the root of this great crisis is the coup movement that led to the impeachment of the crime of responsibility of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the conviction, also without crime, of former President Lula, to prevent him from being elected once again by the majority of the population in 2018. Defeated in the polls, for the fourth consecutive time, coup plotters attacked democracy, rebuilt in years of struggle, with sacrifice of many lives.
The same sectors that are now being confronted, whether by the Lava Jato, the STF, or coercion by the Public Prosecutor's Office or the Federal Police, were accomplices, complicity, omission or fainthearted when agents of the state faced the legitimate mandate of President Dilma, the rights and freedom of President Lula, practicing assaults and leaks in the press of lies against the PT, its leaders and even Lula's relatives.
In order to get the PT out of the government, the Constitution was torn by daylight, breaking the 1988 national pact that ended the dictatorship and restored democracy. To condemn Lula, the press and the institutions have sustained a judicial farce that no one convinces and is rejected by the most renowned jurists in Brazil and the world. To prevent their candidacy, they ignored the law, electoral jurisprudence and a UN decision that recognized their political rights.
Who pays the price for this succession of blows is Brazil, internally disordered and demoralized internationally; and our people, who have sustained in the democratic process the conquest of denied rights and opportunities for centuries.
In order to reach the PT, Lava Jato's mechanism was moved to the touch of arbitrariness - like the illegal staples and the coercive driving of Lula - and tenebrous negotiations with bandits who lied in exchange for money and reduced sentences. This was overshadowed by the recent revelation that OAS executives received millions to lie against Lula and the PT.
Sérgio Moro's partiality became undisputed when the former judge became a government minister who helped to elect him for having condemned Lula without evidence. Lava Jato's promiscuity with economic and geopolitical interests of the United States was proved in the agreement until another secret day, in which they delivered allegations and false evidence against our state to the Justice there, in exchange for $ 2.5 billion for personal gain and political of the prosecutors.
The institutional anarchy in which the country lives is not the exclusive work of Jair Bolsonaro, although he has contributed much to this for his dislike of democracy. The situation we are experiencing is the inevitable consequence of small and large attacks on the law and democracy that have been tolerated or encouraged in the name of a fight against corruption, which in fact was a failed campaign to extinguish the PT.
History has many examples of the tragedy in which we live, in Brazil in other countries where, at certain times, the rule of law has been subjugated by political persecution under any pretext. So it was with Terror in France, with the rise of fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, McCarthyism in the United States, dictatorships in Latin America. Many who today mourn the institutional crisis are responsible for creating it. They struck the egg of this serpent.
The PT was born almost 40 years ago to defend the rights of the people and the fullness of democracy, always acting within the law, whether in political institutions, social movements, factories, schools or on the streets. There is no political party in Brazil with a trajectory - in opposition or in government - that gives it more authority to claim the defense of democracy and institutional normality.
Our party clearly understands that institutions should investigate, prosecute, and punish strictly within the law those who spread false news, state agents who illegally leaked classified, false or unconfirmed information to destroy reputations and practice blackmail.
Throughout the campaign of demoralization of Lula and the PT through the media, which was systematic in the last five years, we appeal to Justice for the right of response and punishment of those responsible. We were never attended to. Not even when the leak of the illegal clamp of conversation between former presidents Lula and Dilma had the official timbre of the then judge Sergio Moro, who until today did not respond for this crime committed more than three years ago.
At a time when so many voices are up against censorship of an electronic magazine that has never stood up for its credibility or editorial exemption, it must be remembered that, also by a monocratic decision by a STF minister, President Lula is prohibited from giving interviews since September of last year. Where were these voices when the country's greatest political leader was violently censored?
Where were they when independent journalists such as Luís Nassif, Marcelo Auler, Renato Rovai and others were persecuted and convicted for reporting serious allegations against state agents? Where were they when Veja published a false cover, accusing Lula and Dilma three days into the 2014 election? When Folha de S. Paul has developed the Bolsonaro lies industry paid by cash 2 up from foreigners on the eve of the election?
The PT has never defended, never practiced and will never defend censorship, not even against our most deceitful detractors. But it is clear that, in order to re-establish the rule of law and democracy, it is essential to investigate, prosecute and punish strictly within the law the agents of the state who rape her under any pretext - the alleged intention to do justice or the criminal blackmail .
If in recent years the institutions had simply defended the law, without personal fears or political constraints, the forces of agency and violence would not have arrived where they arrived. No one doubts that their crimes will be charged by history, but their errors are already being charged in the present, by the chaos in which they launched the country and by the suffering of our people.
The owners of fortune, the rentiers, landowners, representatives of foreign interests; the reactionary, prejudiced and fundamentalists who spread hatred, intolerance and authoritarianism are responsible for this national tragedy.
Their goal has always been clear: to deliver national sovereignty, our riches and potentialities; destroy our capacity for autonomous development; revoke the achievements of the people, the workers and citizenship; put an end to retirement and the rights of the elderly, rural and urban workers; to return absolute control of the state to the ruling classes, formed in three centuries of slavery that made Brazil one of the most unjust and unequal societies in the world.
The PT is ready to rebuild, together with the people and with all democratic forces, a better and fairer Brazil, as we have been doing since the redemocratization and especially since the Lula government in 2003. Our people have already shown that it is capable of surpassing major crises. And history proves that this is only possible when there is political freedom and full democracy.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, honorary president of PT
Gleisi Hoffmann, PT national president
Paulo Pimenta, PT leader in the Chamber of Deputies
Humberto Costa, PT leader in the Federal Senate
https://lula.com.br/manifesto-do-pt-a-c ... -golpismo/
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April 18, 2019
Six months after an absolutely out of court electoral process, in which the candidate for president of the majority of the population was arbitrarily excluded and the debate on proposals was banned, Brazil is currently experiencing a very serious political and institutional crisis.
The harmonious relationship between the Powers, established by the Constitution, gives way to force blows and institutional anarchy, amid an escalation of authoritarianism, reaffirmed on Wednesday (17) by the call of the National Security Force to Brasilia to repress legitimate manifestations of indigenous peoples in defense of their threatened rights.
Brazil is reverting to a past of repression, censorship and intolerance; to the times when the state, in the service of the ruling classes, denied freedoms rather than guaranteed them. The political, corporate and even personal differences in which the heads of the Executive, the Legislative, the Judiciary and the Public Prosecution are involved, occur under the interference and even under the tutelage of reactionary leaders of the Armed Forces, which is unacceptable in democracy.
Today there is no doubt that at the root of this great crisis is the coup movement that led to the impeachment of the crime of responsibility of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the conviction, also without crime, of former President Lula, to prevent him from being elected once again by the majority of the population in 2018. Defeated in the polls, for the fourth consecutive time, coup plotters attacked democracy, rebuilt in years of struggle, with sacrifice of many lives.
The same sectors that are now being confronted, whether by the Lava Jato, the STF, or coercion by the Public Prosecutor's Office or the Federal Police, were accomplices, complicity, omission or fainthearted when agents of the state faced the legitimate mandate of President Dilma, the rights and freedom of President Lula, practicing assaults and leaks in the press of lies against the PT, its leaders and even Lula's relatives.
In order to get the PT out of the government, the Constitution was torn by daylight, breaking the 1988 national pact that ended the dictatorship and restored democracy. To condemn Lula, the press and the institutions have sustained a judicial farce that no one convinces and is rejected by the most renowned jurists in Brazil and the world. To prevent their candidacy, they ignored the law, electoral jurisprudence and a UN decision that recognized their political rights.
Who pays the price for this succession of blows is Brazil, internally disordered and demoralized internationally; and our people, who have sustained in the democratic process the conquest of denied rights and opportunities for centuries.
In order to reach the PT, Lava Jato's mechanism was moved to the touch of arbitrariness - like the illegal staples and the coercive driving of Lula - and tenebrous negotiations with bandits who lied in exchange for money and reduced sentences. This was overshadowed by the recent revelation that OAS executives received millions to lie against Lula and the PT.
Sérgio Moro's partiality became undisputed when the former judge became a government minister who helped to elect him for having condemned Lula without evidence. Lava Jato's promiscuity with economic and geopolitical interests of the United States was proved in the agreement until another secret day, in which they delivered allegations and false evidence against our state to the Justice there, in exchange for $ 2.5 billion for personal gain and political of the prosecutors.
The institutional anarchy in which the country lives is not the exclusive work of Jair Bolsonaro, although he has contributed much to this for his dislike of democracy. The situation we are experiencing is the inevitable consequence of small and large attacks on the law and democracy that have been tolerated or encouraged in the name of a fight against corruption, which in fact was a failed campaign to extinguish the PT.
History has many examples of the tragedy in which we live, in Brazil in other countries where, at certain times, the rule of law has been subjugated by political persecution under any pretext. So it was with Terror in France, with the rise of fascism in Italy, Nazism in Germany, McCarthyism in the United States, dictatorships in Latin America. Many who today mourn the institutional crisis are responsible for creating it. They struck the egg of this serpent.
The PT was born almost 40 years ago to defend the rights of the people and the fullness of democracy, always acting within the law, whether in political institutions, social movements, factories, schools or on the streets. There is no political party in Brazil with a trajectory - in opposition or in government - that gives it more authority to claim the defense of democracy and institutional normality.
Our party clearly understands that institutions should investigate, prosecute, and punish strictly within the law those who spread false news, state agents who illegally leaked classified, false or unconfirmed information to destroy reputations and practice blackmail.
Throughout the campaign of demoralization of Lula and the PT through the media, which was systematic in the last five years, we appeal to Justice for the right of response and punishment of those responsible. We were never attended to. Not even when the leak of the illegal clamp of conversation between former presidents Lula and Dilma had the official timbre of the then judge Sergio Moro, who until today did not respond for this crime committed more than three years ago.
At a time when so many voices are up against censorship of an electronic magazine that has never stood up for its credibility or editorial exemption, it must be remembered that, also by a monocratic decision by a STF minister, President Lula is prohibited from giving interviews since September of last year. Where were these voices when the country's greatest political leader was violently censored?
Where were they when independent journalists such as Luís Nassif, Marcelo Auler, Renato Rovai and others were persecuted and convicted for reporting serious allegations against state agents? Where were they when Veja published a false cover, accusing Lula and Dilma three days into the 2014 election? When Folha de S. Paul has developed the Bolsonaro lies industry paid by cash 2 up from foreigners on the eve of the election?
The PT has never defended, never practiced and will never defend censorship, not even against our most deceitful detractors. But it is clear that, in order to re-establish the rule of law and democracy, it is essential to investigate, prosecute and punish strictly within the law the agents of the state who rape her under any pretext - the alleged intention to do justice or the criminal blackmail .
If in recent years the institutions had simply defended the law, without personal fears or political constraints, the forces of agency and violence would not have arrived where they arrived. No one doubts that their crimes will be charged by history, but their errors are already being charged in the present, by the chaos in which they launched the country and by the suffering of our people.
The owners of fortune, the rentiers, landowners, representatives of foreign interests; the reactionary, prejudiced and fundamentalists who spread hatred, intolerance and authoritarianism are responsible for this national tragedy.
Their goal has always been clear: to deliver national sovereignty, our riches and potentialities; destroy our capacity for autonomous development; revoke the achievements of the people, the workers and citizenship; put an end to retirement and the rights of the elderly, rural and urban workers; to return absolute control of the state to the ruling classes, formed in three centuries of slavery that made Brazil one of the most unjust and unequal societies in the world.
The PT is ready to rebuild, together with the people and with all democratic forces, a better and fairer Brazil, as we have been doing since the redemocratization and especially since the Lula government in 2003. Our people have already shown that it is capable of surpassing major crises. And history proves that this is only possible when there is political freedom and full democracy.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, honorary president of PT
Gleisi Hoffmann, PT national president
Paulo Pimenta, PT leader in the Chamber of Deputies
Humberto Costa, PT leader in the Federal Senate
https://lula.com.br/manifesto-do-pt-a-c ... -golpismo/
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