More and more clues are accumulating about the terrible events of Sunday in Brasilia they were not spontaneous. And that the danger is still alive even in the vicinity of the government itself. There’s a huge distrust on property and national security agencies that were linked to and influenced by former President Jair Bolsonaro, which the vandals claim.
This is because it was discovered that approximately 20 hours before the invasion of the Planalto Palace and the other buildings of the Plaza de los Tres Poderes in Brasilia, the Institutional Security Directorate tasked with protecting the Federal Buildings Headquarters fired in writing the specialist platoon of 36 men of the Presidential Guard Battalion, which was the main shield in the area.
On Friday that regiment had been tasked with tightening up the security of the entire federal government area, but on Sunday there was only a regular guard, without riot gearfound a newspaper investigation state.
“They created a liberated zone”confirmed a clarion a senior government official, withholding his name because he was not authorized to comment. The troops thus reduced had no shields, gas bombs or rubber bullets. On Sunday, when it was already late, the troop returned to the scene.
The government is considering a total purge of the security system, among other serious measures. “We have the enemy inside”the source said.
worrying sound
That mistrust is based on other revelations that are being investigated. An audio has appeared in which one of the participants in the violent march and who was a member of the coup camps of Brasilia, informed her companions that the Army “protected and guarded” to the extremists in the headquarters of the Brazilian capital and warned them how to flee before the arrival of the police after Sunday’s events.
Says the unidentified woman in the audio accessed by the news site metropolis: “Don’t talk about the Army. You have not lived what we live. If it wasn’t for them, I don’t know what would have become of the people“, he claims.
“We left the Esplanade (the attacked area) and didn’t know where to go. Lula decreed federal intervention and sent in the police. They were going to massacre people, and it was the commanders who did not allow this massacre, now they are in prison. They were arrested because they didn’t comply with Lula’s order.”
Add that the Army is “on the side of the people” and that he provided “cover” so we could escape “before the police arrived at the coup camp. The woman does not clarify which military she is referring to who are being held. former commander of the military police of the Federal District, Fabio Augusto Vieira.
Research state with information from military sources, places the office of the Institutional Security Directorate (GSI, according to its acronym in Portuguese Gabinete de Segurança Institucional) “in center of the events that led to the invasion of Planalto”.
The report explains that this unit “was populated by officials linked to Bolsonarismo in the management of General Augusto Heleno”. led the PT to distrust the loyalty of GSI members. When he took office, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva decided to withdraw his personal security from the cabinet to leave it in the hands of the Federal Police).
Last week, General Marco Edson Gonçalves Dias, appointed by Lula to lead the Cabinet, had not yet named his team. “It was this moment of transition, where the flow of information from base to command is compromised, that has been used by extremists to attack,” the report said.
The improvisation and disorder they seem to have prevailed in the other bodies. In the early afternoon and when things had already gotten out of hand, the so-called Military Command of Planalto He decided on his own initiative to send the platoon back to the spot.
But the troops he was much younger than necessary, even lower than that mobilized in other protest situations such as in May 2017 against the then provisional president Michel Temer who was 15 times greater in troops and repressive power, the newspaper recalls.
“There Was a Trap”
Government sources consulted by this envoy state that “it is clear” that “there was a trap” although it is not yet known if this action was aimed at promoting a coup, as demanded by violent militants who destroyed public buildings, or if it was a pressure and power display of their constituents to influence the new authorities.
“At some point that’s secondary, because if there was a further disaster, if there was some dead, some old man or old lady who camped in front of the barracks asking for a coup de main, which would have gotten completely out of hand and the military may have acted.”they argued.
The reaction after the disaster has largely achieved order which was particularly visible this Wednesday, when protests were enlisted across the country under the name of Mega National Demonstration and summoned by social networks “for the resumption of power”, according to their motto.
Journalistic reports record cases such as that of the capital of Goias where protests in Vaca Brava Park were mentioned. The place appeared from the morning full of police vehicles. Only a small handful of protesters took heart at the scene.
In São Paulo, the demonstrations had as a possible backdrop Avenida Paulista and in Rio de Janeiro, in Copacabana, among other cities. But as the day progressed, he was seen in those places more security forces than protesters.
Lula da Silva, meanwhile, has convened his cabinet to get started give consistent signals of normalcy as government therapy to ease tensions as police investigations into protest organizers continue.
Measures
One of the immediate steps will be the announcement of the economic plan by Minister Fernando Haddad. It transpired that the official is waiting for a signal from the president a replace fuel taxes that Bolsonaro withdrew to improve his electoral image, creating a $9 billion loss to the public treasury.
Haddad works with this measure a strengthen the collection and reduce the fiscal gap in 2023. Lula initially agreed to extend the exemptions to fuels due to their possible inflationary impact and the risk of inciting protests by truck drivers, aligned with the former president, who regularly protests with pickets on the paths.
But Sunday’s events modified those visions and those criteria. Perhaps now the minister’s request will be accepted. Lula instructed the official to present his program soon, possibly this Friday, as an “empowerment” measure for dispel the perception that there would be a delay in the agenda of the government after Sunday’s coup.
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Source: Clarin
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