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Daily Contextual Analysis – By Miguel do Rosário
Translated by Eoin O’Neill
The interview with Professor Wanderley Guilherme, published today in Cafezinho, contains an important alert for all Brazilians, especially the political community: we are entering a period of profound instability, because so far the coup has only been political. However, to be fully consummated, it also needs to be a social coup, in other words, it will have to use violence to coerce, intimidate, and annihilate all the social instances which do not accept it as a democratic and legitimate process.
He also notes that the opposition, by embarking on such a farcical golpista adventure, hastily tied together with the mediatic monopoly, will start to lose on the first day of the illegal government, because it will then be subject to all sorts of demands which until now were being made of the PT — and there are no miraculous responses on the horizon.
Cafezinho was in Brasília this Wednesday where we interviewed, together with other bloggers, Tereza Campello, Minister of Social Development.
Before the beginning of the interview, Campello told me a story which terrified me.
She remembered that the press has begun to publicize with great fanfare, a document from the possible new Temer administration, called ‘Social Passage,’ which deals with social programs. The name ‘passage’ is the same used in the Aécio Neves campaign, and this is not by chance. Campello observed that the press published the content of the document without consulting the ministry responsible for social programs, without even making a single miserable counterpoint.
This document for the ‘new government’ was published without being subjected to any criticism. The social programs of the government, Campello explained, are praised all over the world. In addition, they are used as an international model. Nevertheless, neither the ministry nor any other serious organization was consulted.
Campello also noted that the social programs in force at present do not only express the materialization of the ideas being debated. They are the mature fruit of an immense series of concrete research projects, including by organizations not linked to the government.
The minister said that she contacted the press. They did not want to hear her. Rather, the blockade was total, she lamented. So, she ordered the ministry to study the impact of the measures ‘announced’ by the new government and trumpeted by the press.
TV Globo, instead of publishing the ministry’s study, sent three profoundly aggressive and hostile questions, asking if the ministry had the ‘right’ to criticize a party program.
It is frightening.
The social programs of the government impact the lives of dozens of millions of Brazilians, and through them the entire national economy.
So fascist is the Brazilian press that is releases reports about social programs but does not consult the ministry responsible for the implementation of the current programs. It does not even look at the study and research which exists about these programs!
Today, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) decide to strip Eduardo Cunha of both his presidency of the Chamber of Deputies and his parliamentary mandate.
Better late than never, but it is lamentable that this happened after the impeachment vote. The STF’s omission is something explainable only by its adhesion to the mood of the coup inflamed by the means of communication and economic power.
The STF is just repeating the modus operandi of 1964, when it washed its hands and afterwards gave the coup its seal of approval.
Although the government submitted a suit to annul the impeachment vote, since it was led by Eduardo Cunha, the damage has been done.
The golpista gang do not appear to be worried about anything but power. Their blindness in relation to the dirt of the process, in relation to the risks of carrying out a golpista adventure which will empower an illegitimate government, is explained by the total protection provided by the mediatic monopoly, which is fully committed to the coup.
For some time, we have been warning about the commitment of the media to the coup. The Power section in Folha, for example, has been fully occupied for more than a year with publicity in favor of impeachment. Nevertheless, Dilma Rousseff started 2016, despite everything, with an ‘exclusive’ article in Folha…