O mundo já entendeu que a democracia no Brasil foi estuprada por corruptos. Diz Thomas Palley "reviver o ciclo de violência política que tanto mal fez à América Latina no passado recente"; ele também disse que um golpe de corruptos contra uma presidente honesta é uma perversão da guerra à corrupção no Brasil;
Intelectual pede boicote à Rio 2016 para salvar democracia no Brasil
O americano Thomas Palley, que estuda a globalização, foi economista-chefe do comitê China-Estados Unidos e abriu o think-tank Economics for Democratic & Open Societies, publicou um manifesto nesta segunda-feira no jornal financeiro Market Watch; segundo ele, as nações democráticas devem boicotar os Jogos Olímpicos de 2016, no Rio de Janeiro, para salvar a democracia brasileira;
"A comunidade internacional deve agir com rapidez para parar o golpe brasileiro já na sua raiz", diz ele; se isso não for feito, o risco é "reviver o ciclo de violência política que tanto mal fez à América Latina no passado recente"; ele também disse que um golpe de corruptos contra uma presidente honesta é uma perversão da guerra à corrupção no Brasil; nesta segunda-feira, o ex-chanceler Celso Amorim afirmou que os países vizinhos estão ameaçados pelo golpe no Brasil; Rússia e China cogitam não reconhecer o governo provisório de Michel Temer
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intelectual norte-americano Thomas Palley, que estuda a globalização,
foi economista-chefe do comitê China-Estados Unidos e abriu o think-tank
Economics for Democratic & Open Societies, publicou um manifesto
nesta segunda-feira no jornal financeiro Market Watch.
Segundo ele, as nações
democráticas devem boicotar os Jogos Olímpicos de 2016, no Rio de
Janeiro, para salvar a democracia brasileira. "A comunidade
internacional deve agir com rapidez para parar o golpe brasileiro já na
sua raiz", diz ele. Se isso não for feito, o risco é "reviver o ciclo de
violência política que tanto mal fez à América Latina no passado
recente".
Ele também disse que um golpe de corruptos contra uma presidente honesta é uma perversão da guerra à corrupção no Brasil.
Nsta segunda-feira, o ex-chanceler Celso Amorim afirmou que os países vizinhos estão ameaçados pelo golpe no Brasil (leia aqui).
Rússia e China cogitam não reconhecer o governo provisório de Michel Temer (leia aqui).
Abaixo, o artigo, em inglês, de Thomas Palley:
Terrible antidemocratic
events are now unfolding in Brazil with the constitutional coup against
President Dilma Rousseff, organized through a cooked-up impeachment
trial.
The impeachment coup represents
a naked attempt by corrupt neoliberal elements to seize power in
Brazil. Make no mistake: it is a threat to democracy and social progress
in Brazil, Latin America, and even the global community at large.
If Brazilian voices concur, the world should respond by boycotting the Rio Olympics scheduled for this August.
Background: the capture and perversion of Brazil’s war on corruption
The constitutional coup
against Rousseff represents a capture and perversion of Brazil’s war on
political corruption. As is widely known, Brazil has been rocked by
revelations of massive corruption centered on its national oil company,
Petrobras PETR3, +3.47% , but extending far beyond.
Political corruption is
endemic in Brazil and is a curse upon the country. As a consequence,
governing without recourse to corruption is almost impossible as bribery
and kickbacks have historically been the only way of passing
legislation in Brazil’s fractured Congress.
To their shame, some
members of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT) government
under previous President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva succumbed to this
curse. However, the PT’s involvement is a small fraction of the overall
scandal, which infects the entirety of right-wing and business
opposition parties far more extensively.
The opposition parties
saw both threat and opportunity in the corruption scandal. The threat
was exposure of their own pervasive corruption. The opportunity was the
possibility of using the economic recession and the PT’s tainting to
overthrow Rousseff, thereby capturing government, blocking their own
prosecution for corruption, and putting a stop to the social progress
and reversal of income inequality the PT has achieved.
Zero evidence of Rousseff’s corruption
But try as they might,
the opposition has found no evidence of corruption on the part of
Rousseff, something that may be unique in the presidential history of
Brazil. A cynic might even say that is the real root of Rousseff’s
political failure, as her honesty has likely turned the system against
her.
Lacking evidence of corruption, the opposition has turned to impeaching Rousseff on grounds of violating technical budget laws
in her prior term (2011-14), when she used temporary budget financing
from the national development bank. This practice is known as “pedaling”
and has been used before by governments, including that of President
Fernando Cardoso. They were never sanctioned, yet Cardoso and his party
now support impeachment.
The practice of budget
pedaling was declared illegal by the Federal Court of Accounts in April
2015 and the Rousseff administration immediately moved to pay off its
pedaling debts.
But rather than seeing
that judgment as definitively clarifying permissible budget practice,
the right-wing and business opposition that controls Brazil’s Congress
has contrived to impeach Rousseff for past budget technicality
violations.
As evidenced by their own
past thievery and budget practices, the impeachment is not aimed at
correcting and preventing fiscal misappropriation. Instead, the goal is
to exploit the decision to gain power that they could not secure at the
ballot box.
Coup of the corrupt and vicious
The most egregious aspect
of the process is that the impeachment has been led by persons already
convicted of corruption or facing imminent conviction, along with
vicious authoritarians and retrograde neoliberals.
Congressman Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of the Brazil’s lower house, has just been ordered to step down or taking $40 million in bribes.
Sen. Renan Calheiros,
president of Brazil’s upper house, has a history of being disciplined
for ethical violations and is currently under investigation for taking numerous major kickback payments.
Congressman Jair
Bolsonaro, who was an outspoken lower house supporter of impeachment,
dedicated his vote to Brazil’s past military dictatorship and the
colonel who tortured Rousseff in the 1970s when she fought back against
the dictatorship.
Interim president, Michel
Temer, has already been disciplined for campaign finance violations
that render him ineligible to run for office. He is also under
investigation as part of the Petrobras scandal.
Temer, who is not a member of the PT, has appointed a viciously neoliberal cabinet. That means Brazil, which elected Rousseff of the Workers’ Party in 2014, now has a neoliberal government.
The agriculture minister is Blairo Maggi, an agribusiness billionaire known as the “soy king”, who is said to have destroyed more rain forest than any living person.
The minister of justice,
Alexandre de Moraes, has been an open advocate of police repression in
the state of Sao Paulo, and he has also now been given charge of the
human rights ministry.
The minister of institutional security (which includes Brazil’s CIA) is Gen. Sergio Etchegoyen, whose father was identified by Brazil’s Truth Commission as responsible for murder and torture during the dictatorship. Etchegoyen dismissed those charges as “frivolous”.
Lastly, the minister of
finance is Henrique Meirelles, former CEO of Bank of Boston and an
advocate of the most extreme neoliberal financial policies.
This ugly cast of characters makes crystal clear what is happening in Brazil.
Boycott the Olympics
The impeachment coup
represents a grave threat to democracy and social progress in Brazil and
Latin America. Democratic civil society in Brazil urgently needs the
world’s help. If opponents of the coup call for a boycott of the Rio
Olympics, the global community of democracies should immediately sign
on.
An Olympic boycott could
be a beautiful and powerful action. It can brilliantly spotlight the
culpability and corruption of the coup conspirators, while sending a
global message in support of democracy.
Everyone knows the
Olympics and the World Cup are both sporting and political events.
Governments use these events to gain legitimacy, which means the Rio
Olympics now risks conferring tacit approval on the coup against
Rousseff.
History provides evidence
of past failures to help, and those failures illustrate the need for
present action. The greatest failure was the 1936 Berlin Olympics that
gave tacit to approval to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. In 1978 the
global community failed Argentina by participating in the World Cup at a
time when Argentina’s dictators were brutally torturing and murdering
Argentines by the thousands.
Stop the revival of antidemocratic Latin American politics
The stakes are high.
Brazil is being closely watched by antidemocratic reactionary forces
throughout Latin America. The global community must act vigorously to
stop Brazil’s constitutional coup dead in its tracks.
Failure to do so will
condemn Brazilian democracy and send a signal throughout the region
legitimizing right-wing antidemocratic politics. That risks reviving the
tragic cycle of political violence that has so injured Latin America in
the recent past. Boycotting the Rio Olympics might help prevent that
outcome.
Thomas I. Palley is
an economist based in Washington who writes about globalization. He
started Economics for Democratic & Open Societies, and was chief
economist for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Committee.
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