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  Chicureo

  Bolsonaro's opponents and the international news media hate him just like Trump, but this is a major victory for the Brazilian people.
  
  Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos.

  Feb 16th, 2020 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Terence Hill

  ”Last Monday (16), the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper published an interview with Supreme Court Chief Justice Dias Toffoli, which deserves to be read by everyone.
  The headline reads: “Toffoli says Lava Jato destroyed businesses and the Public Prosecutors Office didn’t act transparently.” In other words, the Chief Justice admited what we have been saying for a long time.
  The Lava Jato investigation was not effectively created to fight corruption – it was created to implement a policy based on the interests of international capital in Brazil, especially US interests.
  The Lava Jato investigation had two primary goals. The first was to criminalize the political opposition and make it impossible for the left to continue governing Brazil. The second was to destroy strategic Brazilian companies and economic sectors such as oil and gas. But they did not only destroy Petrobras. Lava Jato also destroyed Brazil’s most important construction and engineering businesses, which were operating worldwide.
  This is exactly what Chief Justice Dias Toffoli says in his interview. What happened in Brazil would have never happened in the United States or Germany. There, entrepreneurs are punished, but companies aren’t normally punished. The State will subsidize and even even nationalize private companies to prevent them from folding.
  http://www.brasilwire.com/chief-justice-toffoli-says-lava-jato-tried-to-destroy-brazil/

  Feb 17th, 2020 - 01:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Chicureo

  Excellent example why Bolsonaro was elected to clean out the systemic PT corruption of the past!
  
  Brasil acima de tudo, Deus acima de todos.

  Feb 17th, 2020 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Terence Hill

  ”Shortly before his death in 2012, and seeking to make amends, Reginald Bartholomew, former US Ambassador to Italy in the early-mid 1990s, confessed to US State Department, intelligence and law enforcement’s involvement in Italian Anti-Corruption operation ‘Mani Pulite’ (Clean hands) – something long dismissed as conspiracy theory. Mani Pulite would serve as the blueprint for Brazil’s own Operation Lava Jato. ... There are other parallels and symmetries during turbulent periods in the two country’s respective political histories. Left movements in Italy had long been subverted & sabotaged by the United States since the second world war as part of a covert “stay-behind” operation codenamed Gladio. This included the ‘Strategy of Tension’, where domestic terrorism was used to convince the population that it was in the midst of a communist overthrow.
  Brasil has known similar: in 1981 a faction within the Dictatorship attempted to stage “Left Wing” terrorism in order to roll back civil liberties and moves towards re-democratisation. A planned bombing of a workers day parade in Rio de Janeiro literally backfired, with one agent killed and another badly burned when one of their explosive devices detonated in a parked car. The Military government at first blamed Left Wing groups for the explosion, an allegation later disproven.
  Those wishing for the end of the Worker’s Party as a political force could well be conjuring up Brasil’s own Silvio Berlusconi. Rather than a “market friendly” PSDB administration with a broad popular mandate, “cleaning” out Brazil’s political establishment could result in a saviour populist in the vain of the former Italian President. To an extent, it already happened before with Collor.”
  http://www.brasilwire.com/mani-pulite-italys-own-lava-jato/

  Feb 18th, 2020 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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