This SITREP was sent to me by “Kubla Khan” from Sao Paulo:
On the night of July 30 the “Lula Institute”, which was created and is chaired by the leftist leader known internationally, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was attacked by a homemade bomb. The same Lula, elected twice president of the republic, the same Lula that through aggressive social policies, drew 41 million people out of poverty line, in the program to combat hunger and social inclusion regarded as the greatest of modern times.
This is, so far, the apex of the climate of hate fomented by the great majority of the Brazilian media, along with the opposition parties, eager for a power outlet through the Impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.
In an unprecedented campaign, the president has been the target of daily, uninterrupted attacks, led by the conservative press arms, and through social media, especially Facebook. The so-called “panelaços” – (demonstrations in which any statement of president in TV, people leave at the windows and the sidewalks banging pots), are also a constant, which along with some demonstrations of large-scale, where thousands of people, most of middle and upper class, took to the streets in protests carefully crafted, make the President has the worst approval ratings in the history of the country, including beating the indexes of former President Fernando Collor, months before being ousted by impeachment, in 1992.
According to the excellent article by William Engdahl, US, engineer and jurisprudent (Princeton, USA, 1966), a graduate degree in comparative economics (Stockholm, Sweden-1969) in one of the newspapers most sold in the US, the New Eastern Outlook – “The reason why Washington wants to get rid of Rousseff is clear. As president, she is one of the five BRICS heads who signed the formation of the Development Bank of BRICS, with an initial authorized capital of $ 100 billion and a reserve fund of another 100 billion dollars. It also supports a new international reserve currency to complement and eventually replace the dollar. ”
Also according to the journalist: “During the rough campaign between Rousseff and Aécio Neves (the opposition candidate), the opposition began to spread rumors that Rousseff, who until then had never been linked to corruption so common in Brazilian politics, would be involved in a scandal involving the state-owned oil giant, Petrobras. In September, a former director of Petrobras claimed that Rousseff government officials had received commissions on contracts signed with oil giant, these committees which then would have been used to buy congressional support. Rousseff was a member of the board of directors of the company until 2010.
Now, on November 2, 2014, just days after the hard-fought victory for Rousseff, the largest US financial auditing firm, “Price Waterhouse Coopers” refused to sign the financial statements for the third quarter of Petrobras. The PWC demanded a more thorough investigation of the scandal involving the state-run oil company.
The Price Waterhouse Coopers is one of the audit firms, tax consulting and corporate and more tainted business scandals in the United States. She was involved in 14 years of covering up fraud in the AIG insurance group, which was at the heart of the US financial crisis of 2008
Also according to Engdahl: “With the deepening of relations between the Rousseff government and China as well as with Russia and other partners of the BRICS, in May 2013, the US vice president, Joe Biden, came to Brazil his agenda focused on the development of gas and oil. He met with President Dilma Rousseff, who had succeeded his mentor Lula in 2011. Biden also met with leading energy companies in Brazil, including Petrobras.
Although little has been said publicly, Rousseff declined to reverse the 2009 oil law in order to adapt it to the interests of Biden and Washington. Days after Biden’s visit came the revelations of Snowden on the NSA, that the United States was also spying Rousseff and senior officials from Petrobras. She was furious, and that September, denounced the Obama administration before the UN General Assembly in violation of international law. In protest, she canceled a scheduled visit to Washington. After that, relations United States-Brazil suffered severe cooling.
Before Biden’s visit in May 2013, Rousseff had a popularity rate of 70 percent. Less than two weeks after the visit of Biden to Brazil in nationwide protests called by a well-organized group called “Movement Free Pass”, relating to a nominal increase of 10 percent in bus fares, they led the country virtually to a standstill and they became very violent. The protests bore the mark of a typical “Color Revolution” or destabilization via Twitter that Biden seems to follow wherever it presents itself. Within weeks, the popularity of Rousseff fell to 30 percent.”
On March 17, 2014 began an overt operation by Federal Judge Sergio Moro, setting off a wave of arrests of politicians and builders contractors, unprecedented in the history of the country. Key figures and presidents of the largest construction companies in Brazil, as well as figures from the first and second levels of the PT (Party of President and Lula) have been and are being targeted by this operation. Now we must remember that corruption is endemic in the country, and although similar political situations of other parties, including the opposition key figures such as the president of the Chamber of deputies and politicians from the main opposition party, the PSDB, are involved in the same crimes, no action is taken against them – even when charged or cited by the prisoners in winning denunciations system, its processes are filed, thus demonstrating that the target of operations is not fighting corruption, but rather discredit the PT and all circle of power around the president, and obviously derail Petrobrás as a state enterprise.
Note: a draft law presented by opposition senator and former candidate defeated by Lula in former presidency elections, José Serra (PSDB-SP), which predicts the end of compulsory Petrobras as the operator and have at least 30% share in the consortium created for the pre-salt exploration, paving the way for the subdivision of operations to foreign companies, mainly from the United States.
Even in the economic, earlier this year, the President was forced to take unpopular measures at the beginning of his second term, the so-called Fiscal adjustments, to mitigate the effects of the global economic crisis, that through enormous effort of his government, just now beats to the country’s ports. These measures – increase in public rates, spending cuts in social programs, and curbing demand for luxury goods, though necessary, were taken soon after an election win with a small margin of votes, which caused more discontent in low class populations, mainly in the North and Northeast, the poorest and most decisive in the victory of president in the 2014 elections.
But let’s see if the numbers of the Brazilian economy justify all this revolt of the population:
Inflation target set for the year: 4.5%
Unemployment (first quarter of year): 7.9%
GDP: R $ 5.52 trillion
So we note that, despite living a time of downturn in the economy, the country is far from a state to justify such indignation and anger by society. Also draws attention the fact that despite the price increases, the population keeps going fiercely shopping, including luxuries, which has values that do not make it possible to purchase in a state of economic chaos.
Another wave of rumors give hypothesized the resignation of the president, an unlikely decision, especially if we take into account his recent statements in favor of the votes obtained by free elections, and its history as a prisoner tortured by the Brazilian military regime, in the 60s – “born in middle-class family, he became interested in socialism in their youth, shortly after the military coup of 1964 and then joined the armed struggle of the left: he became a member of the National Liberation Command (HILL) and later the Vanguard Armada Revolutionary Palmares (VAR-Palmares) – both organizations supported the armed struggle against the military regime. He spent nearly three years imprisoned (1970-1972): first by the military Operation Bandeirante (OBAN), where he underwent torture sessions, and later by the Department of Political and Social Order (DOPS)”. (Source Wikipedia)
So the country follows in suspense, and under the ghost two demonstrations scheduled for this month: on the 16th – where the opposition calls for impeachment of the president, and on the 20th – where the popular movements hold demonstrations in support and reparation to the president.
Us wants a change in the Brazilian leadership, and it is behind the conservative press. But the President should find (and we all have some) ” skeletons in the conservative closet”, and start moving from a defensive position to an offensive one. It is a very brutal game, does the President have the stomach for it? because we all know that the others have it.
Thanks for the report. One can see the same tactics and strategies being used against Brazil as the Israeli-Americans have used in other countries they are trying to regime change, even down to the phony bus fare protests. These people, the “color revolution” designers, operate from templates. A coup attempt is a very real possibility, given the past history of Brazil under American fascist control where the army there was used as New York’s enforcers. I don’t think the Brazilian military has ever been adequately clean up of that quisling scum, since Brazilian independence is very recent, and still likely very tenuous.
It is absolutely very simple, she should take an example what happened to Ukraine when the president Yanukovic at the most important moment of the history of the Ukraine was “SOFT” and indecisive ,at the most important moment of the country went to the dark clouds of the snipers who had killed innocent people
and the rest of the history of the Ukraine is very well known to the all world.
There are moments in our lives when we do a week decision and we have to pay for this decision for a very, very long time.
At the last meeting in Ufa she looked and acted in a very uneasy way. Everybody can saw that there is something going on, but now she has to decide if she is going to betray the Brazil nation because of fear, or she will stand up for her nation as a strong leader who will always protect their own children for the bright future after this world mess will be over.
Anon, I can quite easily see Rouseff selling out to save her own skin. Her recent turn towards neo-liberal economic poison shows she’s panicking, I would say. It won’t save her, and, as Uncle Satan needs to teach a good lesson to all those that dare stand against it, I can see her mouldering in prison again after a coup d’etat.
imagine it is not that way, fortunately, mumblebrain. Not for that reason. What the president is her mind mostly pressed and showing in her back turns and updowns is avoiding at all costs the setsbacks in the party policies – and sucesses – reached by the last decade. They are very significant either economically and socially. And if say 60% of them turns out to be irreversible, that means the biggest win of all.
Anonymous, I’d say she needs to get some independent media in there. It seems that Western oligarchs control media everywhere. I wonder if there is not some respected Latin American jurist or other well-known figures– perhaps Cubans, who could pen some editorials, or even televise a message which seeks to explain to the Brazilian people what is really going on.
A great many Brazilians may be too unsophisticated to understand that the info they are receiving is sometimes false, and always manipulative. That if they continue their present course they will end up like Libya or Ukraine. If necessary in this emergency she should take over one TV station.
If they will not listen to Roussef there ust be others in Latin Americca whom they respect sufficiently to listen to & Roussef should seek the help of others. Surely it is in the interest of every South American country to avoid the chaos that is being planned by coming to her aid.
The US tries to pursue its interests, and those include regime change in Ecuador and Brazil. It is up to the opposition to fight for its interests. In the case of Brazil, one imagines that arresting one media oligarch might help the others see the light of reason. They are too busy enjoying their life of extreme wealth to want to spend the next fifteen years in jail. What can’t work is the Yanukovich approach of trying to please both sides.
The Colour Revolution will succeed, and soon, because the PT does not control the typically verminous Rightwing MSM hate and lie machine, and the economy is still controlled by the tiny capitalist elite. Their loyalty is always first to the USA, the global guarantor of elite parasite rule across the planet. And Rouseff is gone as long as the Western subversive NGOs like the NED and the Soros cockroaches are allowed to freely operate in the country. Moreover the military, trained, indoctrinated and equipped by Mordor-on-the-Potomac, is just waiting orders. Brazil was always the BRICS weak link.
IMO, BRICS has always had 3 weak links: Brazil India and South Africa.
The only two reliable countries have always been just China and the Russian Federation.
South Africa has too many western ties, Brazil is too unstable, and India is too unstable AND has too many western ties…
Agree with your point. She should immediately invite some Russian advisors. Brasil is way too important to fall, and after Greece, Bolivia and Venezuela would be next.
First step would be exit of NGOs and media regulation.
excellent suggestion Rootman…what a great idea…Russian advisers…
OT but very relevant in terms of destabilization against BRICS.
Of course, the first target was Russia. Sanctions and low oil prices have hurt the rise of Russia.
One important tool of economics is the Central Bank.
Putin met with the head of the Central Bank early today.
Here’s a transcript of the meeting. Elvira Nabiullina is a controversial figure in Russian economics, but Putin has faith in her. Several topics are covered.
Ruble, national credit card system, national credit ratings agency, interest rates for savings and loans and liquidity to grow businesses.
Transcript is in English.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50115
thanks for posting! unfortunately (taking what was said at face value and not some three dimensional chess gambit) the following from the text:
It is capital and profit that allow us to increase lending activity.
aw come on! banks as intermediaries rather than their de facto role as creators of credit/money as been acknowledged by monetary theorists and pundits from Wolfe @ Financial Times to even Bank of England! this has been presented by non-establishment writers continually like Soddy, Fisher, Frs. Coughlin and Fahey etc. and frequently by N Starikov right here @ the Saker in articles as well as in his delightful book “Rouble Nationalization – the Way to Russia’s Freedom“;
I hope I am being neither cynical nor naive so maybe this “performance review“ is as Nikoly wrote part and parcel of the 1991 sell-out and enforceable by international law etc. and devices such as BRICS and the MIR are necessary interim stages, but superficial reaction and judgement play out toward the worst case scenario that President Putin is himself just one of the boys–I pray that is not so and that indeed this “report“ is just a feint in the dual.
I think that the same impatience is endemic with the economic changes folks want as the military intervention other folks want.
Russia has its hands and feet tied, its institutions screwed over and massive fifth column and NGO and partnerships to weigh it down. Crooks and criminals owned the store. Putin needs another ten or more years to change things and complete the reform of all that was ruined and “mined”.
I argue that he needs to keep at it fiercely, but he can’t create a revolution as some “analysts” want. He doesn’t have the luxury of working in theory. He has 147 million lives (and stomachs to feed) jobs to produce and housing to build while rebuilding the manufacturing and stimulating innovation and productivity. He also had to get babies created, vodka-drinking diminished and fight off the Empire over and over.
Keep all those conditions in mind.
There is a world system he has to stay integrated with for Russia to sell its oil and gas and weapons and technical services to. All the while he and China are changing the system. But like the reforms at home, it is a gradual transformation. China has the exact same issues and challenges. The Empire is determined to destroy all challengers.
Nothing happens in a vacuum except “great ideas based on perfect theories”.
all your points Red Rider are both well taken and made; thank-you,
wasn’t there a politician killed in a plane crash right before the election ?
Ann, yes. The opposition candidate is a young woman whom the US thought was a stronger candidate than the gentleman who was the existing opposition candidate– so they plane-crashed him. It can’t be proven of course. So his second in command within the opposition party became the candidate, handily beaten by Roussef.
Perhaps a little naive, but I have always seen mrs Roussef as a good mother of the nation, somebody every Brazilian would be able to trust. But of course, nobody is perfect.
To me, it seems she seems almost under a spell, like the king of Rohan by Wormtongue, in the lord of the Rings (Tolkien).
She needs a senior mentor from the good side, to help her combat this evil, and prevail!
She has and always had Lula who was, by far, the best president of the my country’s history.
But it seems that was not enough.
Maybe the recidivist USA administration should have a taste of its own meddling medicine? Surely someone must have considered this?
OT – here is another recent video of Ron Paul’s Liberty Report…usually well worth listening to…
about ISIL and Donald Trump’s solution for it…bomb it….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiDHyEKM61c
In Brazil the Hegemon is doing whatever to replace a domocratically elected leader with an own pupput. Will they manage it? They run the same kind of missinformation like in Venezuela, suddenly the legitimate leaders the US MSM transforms them into “evil dictators” and so on. So be ready for Dilma to be the next “Hitler” who knows. Their closest neighbour to the south is falling more and more in dissarray and chaos with the help of the ruling US friendly authorities. Civilians and honest journalits are kidnapped, tortured, killed non stop by the organized crime which often enjoys connections with the authorities. http://www.proceso.com.mx/?p=412638 This shows the latest popular protest for the latest killing of a journalist and and a female activist threatened to death by the governor of a state called Veracruz (who probably got them killed). This news hardly go to the MSM. US better watch! the chaos that you are helping to create in Mexico may hunt you in your own soil!
“Their closest neighbour to the south is falling more and more in dissarray and chaos with the help of the ruling US friendly authorities. Civilians and honest journalits are kidnapped, tortured, killed non stop” I meant MEXICO!
This is meant only as friendly feedback.
Sorry – this report requires too much prior knowledge and/or too much effort to get through the unnatural language for me to read.
I’m not even sure from the first few paragraphs if Lula is meant to be a good guy or a bad guy.
Love the site. And I am quite happy with the bad English that comes in short sentences and follows a simple argument. (Possibly because I speak a Slavic language – he word order doesn’t seem odd – much as the only people who understand my Polish well are those who already understand English!)
Brazil and S America is important. The first 10 mins of Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States episode 7, about Brazil, says as much about US history as anyone needs to hear.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzrf5d_the-untold-history-of-the-united-states-ep07_school
The piece states that “he spent time in jail”. It is referencing Dilma Roussef, she was indeed a militant for democracy. Many young Brasilians don’t see her that way, they think of her as a former terrorist who fought against the authorities. So she has been on the losing side of the information war since day one. This woman while well meaning has strains of incompetence that drag her down. She is the leader of a south american giant but behaves like she was the president of Switzerland. Lula was great because he was always on the offensive and dynamic. Lula’s style was dashing, in your face and kept the USA of balance because he was unpredictable. In foreign affairs and at home he kept his people active and forward looking. Rousseff seems afraid, conciliatory and timid, she has a bunker mentality which allows your foes the time to get creative and come hunting for you. So once the empire smells blood, they pounce and pounce they have. Dilma is not the ruler that Brasil needs, she needs to as Nixon wants said “Either take a shit or get off the pot”……
Fernando, you gave a perfect description of Lula and Dilma in too few words.
Spot on!
I was confused by gender of pronouns. “he” = who? Rouseff? Or Lula? Or someone else?
Katherine
mumblebrain, think that fortunately the president´s u turns and updowns shown lately are not for that reason. -which does not improve things obviously .
The reason is she forcibly has one single most important focus: avoiding at any costs that the sucessful policies of the last decade may then be reversed by the opposing side. And by their foreign sponsors. Because if, say, 60% of them turns out irreversible a huge victory will have been reached.
Saker. I that must thank you, for you have given me the honour of exposing a small view of what is happening in my country in your blog!
Please everybody, forgive my bad english – how things are going on at a frenetic rhythm, I was afraid to take longer to send the report, correcting the grammatical, and something more serious happen down the road …
A hug,
Alexandre – “Kubla-Khan” – São Paulo – Brazil.
And thank you for the report.
Greetings from (occupied) Holland.
Kick out the foreign NGOs like NED and USAID asap…or Rouseff and Lula will live to regret it.
Secondly, advertising is the media’s lifeblood, so Rouseff should immediately deny all hostile Brazilian press Govt advertising because Govt still remains the biggest advertising source, while trippling taxes on the advertising from private business.
Deny hostile conservative private business all Govt contracts and cancel those already given. Hand the same contracts to up and coming loyal middle class who partner with competent companies from BRICS nations especially Russian and Chinese.
Lastly, shake up the police and military and appoint only trusted officers. This is war that has been brought to her doorstep and Rouseff must fight back with twice the ferocity shown to her and be willing to utterly destroy her enemies.
The c.i.a. will make up the lost revenue, just as they do here in the USA.
And what do we see here right on cue you could set your watch to it?
Why, we see another tabloid hit-piece from disinfo Durden hisself on how screwed is Brazil, 2nd one in days, but everything revolving around his home NYC is just doing splendiferously, thank you very much.
Goes with all the China-bashing articles he’s been screeching about nonstop weeks now.
His tabloid hysterics garbage style of marketing “news” has really taken a huge pronounced turn to the worse about 3-4 weeks ago I noticed, so he’s trying a little too transparently for something really big I think we see very very shortly.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-11/just-brazil-hits-rock-bottom-things-are-about-get-even-worse
Zero Hedge is most likely controlled opposition.
Although the site does publish now and then articles from people like PC Roberts and Orlov.
But yes, they give themselves away when it comes to Venezuela, Brazil and China.
Unfortunately Dilma Rousseff took no action to curb the lies thrown on him and his party, PT, for the venal and scoundrel media.
Once, asked whether the government had no intention of making a media regulation (as do the US, UK and any other country), she said that the regulation of media already existed and was called “remote control” (meaning that the viewer could change the channel!)…
Since 2011 (first Dilma’s term) the government is beaten every day from television networks and press and never, I said never, replied or took providences.
Unfortunately Dilma betrayed the trust that the people of Brazil deposited on her because she neither was able to defend his government nor the people who supported it, including this one who writes here.
Probably she forgot that the US are not so far from our borders and have an embassy here.
The author has a problem with the gender of the Brazilian president–she is a woman. The inability to get the gender correct for the subject of this item greatly lessens its authority. We all know the Outlaw Empire will do its utmost to destroy the movement to upend its attempt to enslave the planet. Brazil’s problems are deeply rooted and just as hard to uproot, which makes it easy to destabilize. I remember one of Escobar’s reports prior to the FIFA World Cup describing the unrest resulting from the bus fare increase. But, if we think, it becomes clear that Brazil should never have tried to host such an event given its vast inequality–Lula would have had just as much trouble. Purging South America of US-based fascism will be a long, arduous task, filled with ups and downs–just look at Venezuela and the war being waged on it.
I’m a Brazilian from Paraná State, but mostly brought up in the neighboring State of São Paulo.
There are points made in the above piece I agree with and other things I do not.
I was never a PT member or anything but I voted for Lula when he won his first mandate. I was very young then and hopeful.
Slowly, disappointment crept in. Now, having crossed into my early 30s, I have completely lost faith in this country. I have come to the conclusion that it probably will never amount to much.
After Lula, I voted for Dilma Rousseff, not so much bc I thought she’d make a good president but bc the alternative, a PSDB(party) comeback would mean, after taking a timid step forward, taking several steps backwards.
Brazil’s problems are severe and of a structural nature. They have NOT been addressed, not even by Lula.
Under the “workers party(PT)”, our structural maladies continued untreated.
Sure, the situation improved markedly under Lula, especially when compared to the disastrous effects of previous neo-liberal presidents, the Über traitor Fernando Henrique and his pals above all.
However, there was a continuity of an economic model which is wrong headed and will never allow Brazil to become a trutly advanced society. Coupled with that there is a typical Brazilian inability to carry out long term planning. As former Lula minister, Ciro Gomes, recently said, the country does not have a plan.
A lot of the problems PT is now facing are to a large degree, self-inflicted.
The maladies emcompassing public debt and the interest rates, deindustrialization and denationalization of our Economy, which has become largely an extractive and non diversified form of Capitalism, i.e., the typical economy of a third world country, poor infrastructure, etc, were in place when Lula took over the presidency. So many years later, little has changed.
American author and leftist professor, James Petras, who is more familiar with Latin america’s reality than most Zusans(and latin americans) wrote an article which touches on many of these issues:
“Brazil: Extractive Capitalism and the Great Leap Backward”
Read it at http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1945
In another hard hitting article Petras wrote:
This is part of the reason for Rousseffs fall from grace. Sure, there is a huge media orchestration together with special interests(all traitors) to wear out the government and PTs image but the economic situation has become markedly worse. Unemployment is rising and is NOT 7.9% AT ALL.
These IBGE figures are totally false, just like the 5% figure claimed under Lula, when Brazilian leftists claimed Brazil had reached near full employment. The real unemployment figure is much higher, at least double that. Dieese numbers r generally double those of IBGE.
Not to mention that the vast majority of jobs created have been low wages jobs, typical of the type of economic model Brazil has adopted.
In the US, Dr.P.C.Roberts has frequently called attention to the ploy used by US government and media to not include long term unemployed workers. When those are include US unemployment rate rises over 20%.
For those who can read Portuguese, the best I’ve found to explain the predicament Brazil finds itself in, no holds barred, is Professor Adriano Benayon’s hard to find book and his articles. Despite his solid credentials the media never invites him to speak. Benayon holds a PHD in Economy from Hamburg University, was career diplomat(Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Itamaraty)holding positions in the US, Germany, Netherlands, Mexico,etc. He has been an economic consultant for both houses of the (terrible)brazilian congress,a university jprofessor,etc.
A realist and a nationalist, he tells it like it is.
His articles are available at http://www.diarioliberdade.org/component/comprofiler/userprofile/adriano.html
Watch him at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmL_-N0_sbk
Also worth is following former brazilian auditor Maria Lucia Fattorelli explain the disgusting nature of public debt in Brazil and how it hurts the country;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmRpA88E9gg
‘A Brasilian guy who supports PT from the beginning’ wrote:
‘She has and always had Lula who was, by far, the best president of the my country’s history.’
Personally, i don’t agree Lula was the best president, he would rank far below Getúlio Vargas.
Ps: in terms of foreign policy, if Dilma is impeached, Brazil will lose whatever little sovereignty it has left and I would imagine that if it eventually falls under the PSDB traitors it will become closer to ZUSA and its links to the BRICS could be weakened. In fact, even if Dilma is not impeached, I find it very difficult for PT to win another election. The best one can hope for would be Lula again, but after all the wear and tear, even he might not be enough to secure a win. The brazilian political system is utterly corrupt, it’s all about money. Without a comprehensive political reform, there is little hope of any new blood emerging any time soon.
Regards
Luca K, excellent exposition. Brazil is neo-feudalism exemplified. You cannot end capitalist parasitism as long as the capitalist class owns the economy. It’s socialism or barbarism, and Brazil will be getting barbarism, like the rest of us 99%ers.
Thank you. Valeu pelos links. Excellent explantion of what is happening in Brazil
Pretty solid SITREP.
I could only add that brazilian mainstream media, controlled by six families, is the one party that is pushing the hardest for a coup. Some of them are already on the brink of bakrupcy and this could be their final chance to regain some of their power and wealth.
BUT, this political crisis is hurting everyone, and the Suits have already demanded the chaos to stop. Immediately.
And (thankfully) a grave mistake was made by the conspiratiors: they arrested an Admiral, the father of the brazilian nuclear program and the head of the brazilian nuclear submarine program. Without the support of the armed forces, there’s no way to make a coup work.
So, for now, it seems rather unlikely that Dilma Rousseff will fall.
Espero que esteja certo. (I hope you are right).
The financial parasites do their bit for the “regime change” planners.
Moody’s Downgrades Brazil’s Government Bond Rating, Outlook Stable
“The international rating agency Moody’s downgraded Brazil’s sovereign credit rating from Baa2, assigned to it four years ago, to Baa3, and changed its outlook to stable from negative, the agency said in a press release on Tuesday.”
Harppia wrote:
“And (thankfully) a grave mistake was made by the conspiratiors: they arrested an Admiral, the father of the brazilian nuclear program and the head of the brazilian nuclear submarine program. Without the support of the armed forces, there’s no way to make a coup work.”
Well, this time around, if a coup takes place, it will be a white one, wearing the trappings of legality. It will be achieved through the “justice system’ and congress, supposedly, in the name of ‘fighting corruption’.
The problem is that even if Dilma survives her second mandate and is not impeached, then what next? With PT very weakened by a combo of its own incompetence/corruption plus the massive media campaign to denigrate it, and without any alternatives, the traitorous opposition should win the next presidential elections.
A depressing fact is that the media has been largely successful in convincing the sheeple that ‘never in the history of Brazil has there been as much corruption as under PT’. Totally false. People just don’t have a clue, for instance, the traitorous privatizations which took place under FHC/Serra. It’s also obvious that PSDB polititians and operatives are shielded from investigation. Anyway, I hope Petrobras can be saved. It’s a strategic company, and overall, a very competent one, which is being targeted and slandered. As professor Benayon always says, Brazil needs to protect such companies where indigenous technology is developed and which represent the last bastions of brazilian engeneering.
To illustrate the terrible, endemic leadership problems which have long plagued the country and how it cancels out talent/success, i’ll mention the case of defunct defense company, Engesa, and particularly its development of a modern indigenous MBT in the 80s.
My grandpa, an army career officer, talks about the osorio MBT project with bitterness. The native Brazilian design was among the best in the world in the 80s. But the usual lack of foresight and patriotism allowed it to die out. Even wiki admits:
“The Engesa EE-T1 Osório was a Brazilian main battle tank prototype. It was developed as a privately funded venture by Engesa, with little government support. It was intended to be sold first to Arab and other Third World countries, jump-starting production — and enabling the Brazilian Army to later place its own orders without having to fund development costs. However macro-political events including the Gulf War and North American(US) political pressure led to the tank’s demise, and the tank was never acquired by the Brazilian Army.”
“The EE-T1 was considered for service with the Saudi Arabian Army. It was evaluated against the French AMX 40, the American M1 Abrams, and the British Challenger 1 and emerged as the winner. The Osorio was quite cheap and affordable while having better results in the trials than the other three MBTs. In September 1989, Saudi Arabia quietly opted for the M1 Abrams[…]”
http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/EE-T1-Osorio.htm
So today, we are importing the Leopard 1A5, based on a platform which was designed in the 50s when we could have a much better platform natively designed and produced(with all the middle class jobs that come with it), not to mention the advantages from a national security perspective. Of course, the 1A5 ain’t junk but it is an obsolescent platform being phased out in Western militaries.
But compared to the junk we were operating, cavalry personnel r really happy, tells me a friend who is a liutenant in a cavalry unit. Just watch the vid and see the smiling faces of the tank crews: @2:00, for instance;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1fjUoBrEuM
On a brighter note, look at Embraer KC 390 First Flight, São Paulo, early this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykm9vskZ3Rk
Tomorrow we will march through the streets of our main cities and try to stop the coup d’etat. I hope we still have time.