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quinta-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2015

The Economist ponders the chance of the president; thinks she can be winning the party... - and Comments

A Economist acha que o processo de impeachment contra a presidente pode fazê-la sobreviver, e permitir-lhe terminar o mandato. Trata-se, não de uma aposta em seu favor (como muitos leitores desse artigo da Economist interpretaram, inclusive um que acha que a revista deveria passar a chamar-se The Communist), mas de uma visão realista, a partir do Congresso que existe hoje, no Brasil, um conjunto, provavelmente a maioria, de representantes envolvidos em algum tipo de tramoia suja, e que não querem ver acabar o maná do Executivo, e que temem uma extensão ainda maior das investigações sobre a podridão que é o governo, o Congresso e outras instâncias do país.
Leiam o artigo, no link que vai abaixo:

Brazil’s president

Dilma’s disasters

The impeachment proceedings against Dilma Rousseff are bad for Brazil. But they make it more likely that she will remain in power until the end of her term


http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21679516-impeachment-proceedings-against-dilma-rousseff-are-bad-brazil-they-make-it-more

Mas eu gosto mesmo é de ler os comentários dos leitores. Selecionei apenas três na seção de Comments, mas representativos de debatedores de questões reais.
Só não concordo com Plutonian quando ele diz que Lula e seus asseclas representam a maior gang mafiosa do planeta, e a extensão de seus crimes de corrupção ultrapassam qualquer outro na história. Concordo em que seja um dos maiores do mundo, e certamente o maior do Brasil, em escala e dimensão de todas as patifarias conhecidas. Mas não é o maior do mundo.
Para isso recomendo a leitura (tem largos trechos na Amazon) do livro da professora Karen Dawisha, Putin's Kleptocracy, que apresenta a escala impressionante de roubos, rapinagens, assassinatos, desvios, corrupção, numa escala jamais alcançada por qualquer outro regime mafioso no mundo.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Comments from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/21679516/comments#comments
plutonian
Historians who write about crime will soon start to see that Brazil was the scenario for the most gigantic crime plot ever commited in the world for the enrichment of individuals. A gang of bandits and thieves disguised as a political party - named as PT ("Worker's Party" !!!) - commanded by a semi-illiterate rabble-rouser named Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, generally known as Lula.
Under his helm the PT, posing as a "light" version of a communist party, fooled the miserable, the poor and the unions along with the imbecilized leftist Brazilian academia and stupid student organizations, finally took control of a rich state with an elaborate plan to enrich its members and its key supporters. They also acted dilligently to perpetuate themselves in power basically by buying the votes of the miserable illiterate masses of Brazil for peanuts and most of the Congressmen with favor$ and by installing their apparatschiks in the civil service to control and corrode the most important institutions. All done with other people's (the taxpayers') money, of course.
During 13 years in power, permanently looting the National Treasury, the state companies (usually through fraudulent bidding processes) and their pension funds they pumped (provenly) tens of U$ billions, most likely hundred$, into their personal bank accounts usually located in tax heavens like Switzerland, Luxemburg, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Hong Kong, etc.
The historians will realize that the Italian, Russian, American and all other Mafias & drug cartels were in comparison just groups of amateurs, of ridiculous gun-toting, racketing idots, who risked their lives and usually ended up dead or in jail. The PT gangsters never ran such risks and will probably even end up with a state pension supported by the Brazilian taxpayers.
And Lula, now a super $$ millionaire and who at times was even being considered for winning a Nobel Peace Prize, in case he ends up not caught by the lazy and lenient Brazilian justice may well go into History as the most brilliant criminal brain that mankind ever produced.

Perfect! I agree with you in each of your words.
I worked for a bank in London for 4 years and I remenber one day in our morning meeting when one of my collegues said wonderful things about Lula... It´s a fact that, in general, Europeans have good values and a positive and respectful view about Brazil. At least this was my experience at that time. However, they also display a certain naivity to deal with south americans of bad character, such as Mr. Lula. We brazilians all knew these PT people were mere populists more interested in getting rich that in improving the country. But Europeans thought Mr. Lula was a great leader doing a great job for the country... Now they think, romanticaly, that an impeachment of Dilma would be bad for the country. They should come and live here a few years to get to know the real country (not the one they imagine it is) before they give their opinion. Getting rid of Dilma is THE best thing for the country at this moment. No doubt about it.

Larslarson
As Plutonian wrote: "the PT, posing as a "light" version of a communist party, fooled the miserable, the poor and the unions ..., finally took control of a rich state with an elaborate plan to enrich its members and its key supporters".I would like to add, again, that this is the same blueprint of Chavez in Venezuela and Kirchner in Argentina. Wich was written in Cuba when Fidel Castro was definitely convinced guerrila wars did not work out. The basic idea is to take control of the state and then use it to perpetutuate yourself in power by any means, in particular plundering state companies funds but also buying out the private sector depending on state contracts with juicy deals.

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