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Brazil Sports minister: next victim of the corruption-exposure campaign?
Brazil’s largest circulation magazine Veja, claimed in its last edition that the Sports Minister Orlando Silva has been involved in corruption actions totalling millions of dollars originally destined to promote sports among children from poor households. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesTHIS is Lula's true legacy to Brasil.
Oct 17th, 2011 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0He is infamous for his complete
*institutionalisation of corruption* to all areas of the government and the administration, both federal and throughout all states of the nation.
This means -
No function of government or its civil, military, judicial or any other facet of operation of the state can take place without a series of corrupt acts.
No dealing of the government with industry, commerce or the professions can take place without a series of corrupt acts.
No interactions between Brasil and any other nation - and especially Trade - can take place without a series of corrupt acts.
No operation of any ONG (NGO) involving Brasil can take place without a series of corrupt acts.
No financial business - and especially the redistribution of taxation incomes - can take place without a series of corrupt acts.
THIS is what Lula and PT, the Workers Party, have done to Brasil.
My fear is that EVERY politician and government employee has, perforce, become a participant in the system and its corruption.
When corruption is institutionalised, there is no escape from it.
Rue the day that the Brasil's voters allowed Brasil's judiciary to become politicised and corrupt - allowing corrupting laws and the prctice of corruption to continue with impunity.
Brasil's ruling classes are now largely beyond and above the law;
and Brasil's voting classes allowed it to happen.
THIS is Lula's true legacy.
Is he the victim? :-)
Oct 17th, 2011 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, Lula is no victim, he remains the most powerful fixer in Brasilian politics.
Oct 17th, 2011 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Though I cannot yet substantiate it yet, I heard today that he has become 'the largest' cattle stock owner in Brasil (though I doubt that the stock is credited for tax purposes to the name Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva).
This would not surprise me as there has to be an outlet for fortunes 'earned' and, whilst Lula always declared no knowledge of corrupt practices in Brasil, he has certainly not demured from the accumulating benefits from his position(s).
It would be entirely in keeping with the North Eastern origins of the man for this 'son of the soil' to deploy his fortunes in this fashion.
This is my first foray into denegratory speculation, and I may be spectacularly wrong, but my 'once-close-to-Lula' source appears to have credibility.
Sorry, I was referring to the headline and the Ministry of Sports being the “next victim”. We who live here are the victims!
Oct 18th, 2011 - 01:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, Gene,
Oct 18th, 2011 - 08:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0we are the victims.
But many a good and ambitious, idealistic young man has entered public service and found that he cannot buck the system - it has more tentacles than an octopus and too many suckers on each tentacle (it is no accident that Lula was called Lula); they have sucked the people dry for so many generations that the people know no other condition. They just vote for the biggest bribe accompanied by the biggest lie.
Perhaps, now many Brasilians travel abroad and see (hopefully) better conditions of governance and public service, the Brasilian people will bring about a revolution.
Not a revolution of the politicised Left (or Right), but a revolution of the honest throwing out the corrupt.
What we are talking about is Critical Mass - a sufficient number of honest people willing to stand on an anti-corruption ticket, a sufficient number of them voted into office, and a sufficient number of the most corrupt, senior 'politicians' and officials thrown out and REALLY jailed. This would be a paradigm-shifting situation that would change the whole nature of the state, and the whole dynamic for the future of Brasil.
At the very least, we would be able to transfer the money of corruption to the money of the education of the people - REAL education, not the politicised crap that the people are currently fed.
With an educated people can come advanced skills training; with advanced skills training can come the REAL development of the nation state.
. . . so much to play for, and so many vested interests intent on stopping it happening.
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