El golpe neoliberal sigue su curso en Brasil despues del orgiástico domingo pasado en el que 367 parlamentarios de ese país votaran el impeachment de la Presidenta Dilma Rousseff en nombre de "mis hijos", "mi mujer", "mi nieto", "mi suegra", "los enfermeros sin trabajo", "el café", "los evangélicos" y hasta "los vendedores de seguros de Brasil". Dale que va. Al respecto, reproducimos la amarga nota que escribiera hoy Pepe Escobar para Russia Today:
Título: Hybrid
war hyenas tearing Brazil apart
Texto: The gloomy
and repulsive night when the female president of the 7th largest economy in the
world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial
Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.
By 367 votes for
and 137 against, the impeachment/coup/regime change-light drive against Dilma
Rousseff cleared the Brazilian Congressional circus and will now go to the
Senate, where a “special commission” will be set up. If approved, Rousseff will
then be sidelined for 180 days and a low-rent tropical Brutus, Vice-President
Michel Temer, will ascend to power until the Senate’s final verdict.
This lowly farce
should serve as a wake-up call not only to the BRICS but to the whole Global
South. Who needs NATO, R2P (“responsibility to protect”) or “moderate rebels”
when you can get your regime change just by tweaking a nation’s
political/judicial system?
The Brazilian
Supreme Court has not analyzed the merit of the matter – at least not yet.
There’s no solid evidence anywhere Rousseff committed a “crime of
responsibility”; she did what every American President since Reagan has done –
not to mention leaders all across the world: along with her vice-president, the
lowly Brutus, Rousseff got slightly creative with the federal budget’s numbers.
The coup has been
sponsored by a certified crook, president of the lower house Eduardo Cunha;
reportedly the holder of several illegal accounts in Switzerland, listed in the
Panama Papers and under investigation by the Supreme Court. Instead of lording
over near-illiterate hyenas in a racist, largely crypto-fascist circus, he
should be behind bars. It beggars belief that the Supreme Court has not
launched legal action against Cunha. The secret of his power over the circus is
a gigantic corruption scheme lasting many years, featuring corporations
contributing to his and others’ campaign financing.
And that’s the
beauty of a regime change-light/color revolution of Hybrid War when staged in
such a dynamically creative nation such as Brazil. The hall of mirrors yields a
political simulacrum that would have driven deconstructionists Jean Baudrillard
and Umberto Eco, if alive, green with envy; a Congress crammed with fools/patsies/traitors/crooks,
some of whom are already being investigated for corruption, has conspired to
depose a president who is not under any formal corruption investigation – and
has not committed any “crime of responsibility”.
The neoliberal
restoration
Still, without a
popular vote, the massively rejected tropical Brutus twins, Temer and Cunha,
will find it impossible to govern, even though they would perfectly incarnate
the project of the immensely arrogant and ignorant Brazilian elites; a neoliberal
triumph, with Brazilian “democracy” trampled down six feet under.
It’s impossible
to understand what happened at the Circus Maximus this Sunday without knowing
there’s a gaggle of Brazilian political parties that are seriously threatened
by the non-stop overspill of the Car Wash corruption investigation. To ensure
their survival, Car Wash must be “suspended”; and it will, under the bogus
“national unity” proposed by lowly Brutus Temer.
But first, Car
Wash must produce a high-profile scalp. And that has to be Lula in jail –
compared to which the crucifixion of Rousseff is an Aesop fable. Corporate
media, led by the noxious Globo empire, would hail it as the ultimate victory,
and nobody would care about Car Wash’s enforced retirement.
The 54 million-plus
who voted for Rousseff’s reelection in 2014 voted wrong. The overall “project”
is a government without vote and without people; a Brazilian-style
parliamentary system, without bothering with pesky “elections” and crucially,
including very “generous” campaign financing flexibility not bound to
incriminate powerful companies/corporations.
In a nutshell,
the ultimate aim is to perfectly “align” the Brazilian Executive, Legislative,
Judiciary and corporate media interests. Democracy is for suckers. Brazilian
elites remote controlling the hyenas know very well that if Lula runs again in
2018, he will win. And Lula has already warned; he won’t buy any “national
unity” crap; he’ll be back in the streets fighting whatever illegitimate
government pops up.
We’re now open
for plundering
As it stands,
Rousseff runs the risk of becoming the first major casualty of the
NSA-originated, two-year-long Car Wash investigation. The President, admittedly
an incompetent economic manager and lacking the right stuff of a master
politician, believed that Car Wash – which practically prevented her from
governing – would not reach her because she is personally honest. Yet Car
Wash’s not so hidden agenda was always regime change. Who cares if in the
process the nation is left on the verge of being controlled exactly by many of
those indicted by the anti-corruption drive?
Lowly Brutus
Temer – a vanity case version of Argentina’s Macri - is the perfect conduit for
the implementation of regime change. He represents the powerful banking lobby,
the powerful agribusiness lobby and the powerful federation of industries in
Brazil’s economic leader, the state of Sao Paulo.
The
neo-developmentalist project for Latin America – uniting at least some of the
local elites, invested in developing internal markets, in association with the
working classes – is now dead, because what may be defined as sub-hegemonic, or
peripheral, capitalism is mired in crisis after the 2008 Wall Street-provoked
debacle. What’s left is just neoliberal restoration. TINA (“there is no
alternative”). This implies, in the Brazilian case, the savage reversion of
Lula’s legacy; social policies, technological policies, the drive to globally
expand large, competitive Brazilian companies, more public universities, better
salaries.
In a message to
the nation, Brutus Temer admitted as much; “hope” after impeachment will be
absolutely swell for “foreign investment”, as in let them plunder the colony at
will; back to the trademark history of Brazil since 1500.
So Wall Street,
US Big Oil and the proverbial “American interests” win this round at the circus
– thanks to the, once again proverbial, vassal/comprador elites. Chevron execs
are already salivating with the prospect of laying their hands on the pre-salt
oil deposits; that was already promised by a trusted vassal in the Brazilian
opposition.
The coup goes on.
The real hyenas haven’t yet pounced. So it's far from over.
Pobre Brasil. Después de leer esto, uno tiende a pensar que acá en Argentina hasta tuvimos "suerte" de que esta lacra gorila que nos gobierna llegara al poder por el voto, y no de la manera horrenda que está llegando allá... Al menos acá quedó plasmado que apenas un poco menos de la mitad no los quería, y eso da legitimidad a oponérseles masivamente en todos los frentes, tal como ellos, masiva y brutalmente, destruyen y entregan todo subidos a su en-camino-de-diluirse 51%...
ResponderEliminarTom
Si, la derecha llegó al poder acá por el voto, pero también gracias a diez años de desgaste por parte de las herramientas de poder blando: medios, ONGs, think tanks, etc. No sólo por errores propios, que los hubo y muchos.
ResponderEliminarCordiales saludos,
Astroboy