quarta-feira, 5 de junho de 2013

Sleeping with the Enemy

 
The recent history of Brazil will take another few decades to be understood.
Paulo Jabur's Picture of intelectuals talking to political prisioners in the mid 60's may be the seed of what was named Democracy. Militarys deposed arms and "gave back" the government to "elected" people.
Oscar Niemeyer famous architect of Brasilia, Darcy Ribeiro, famous writer and sociologist, Antônio Houais, linguistic... all of them had an idea of what a new order , a new country was going to be.
A new party was going to be formed MDB, Brazilian Democratic Movement, lounched its party.
Soon, fellowmen from the Comunist Party and others joinned and all they wanted was democracy.
Mr. José Sarney was took the presidency after his President Mr. Tancredo Neves died after elections and as vice-presidente, Sarney helped to structure his party PMDB.
Great names were once part of it and helped making it the biggest Political Party in Brazil, but they left to create their own parties such as PSDB and PT.
What was left of it was big enough to have structures, ministeries, positions in the government that makes them have today the Presidency of the Senate, the presidency of Congress and the vice-presidency of the country.
Not easy fot PT, nor for any other party.
Their roots are to deep into the system, in some cases persons and the party are so close together that they become one not very nice smelling mass.
Renan Calheiros, presidente of the Senate, for instance has been envolved in so many scandals that they were known as Renangates (4 big scandals), but he is still there.
José Sarney, after being presindet of Brazil, changed his State to be elected Senator and has also been presidente of the Senate, with lots of "secret acts"
There are many other names, like Orestes Quércia, (dead) and Antônio Fleury who made fortunes after being Governor of Stete of São Paulo, who should not have the rights of being elected again, but if they are still alive, they keep running and winning. Too bad, not too late.

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