In Brasília, a party packed with the city’s elite celebrated the coming of the weekend with live bands. In São Paulo’s middle- and upper-class neighborhoods, empty windows indicated that the pans were in the right place: in the kitchen. On Avenida Paulista, the Fiesp building retained its color, but there was no indication that residents would dare to use it as a giant billboard to fight corruption.
Where are all the infuriated people who proudly wear the CBF shirt while their maids pull the prams and go to want a better Brazil without corruption?
Pastor Milton’s voices represent a serious jolt to the idea of a republic in a country that no longer knows exactly where the ground is after so many blows. If its content is confirmed, what is most frightening is that only the OECD has proven right: Jair Bolsonaro’s intervention in justice.
One of the main goals of Brazilian foreign policy, the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), prepared a document in 2020 criticizing President Jair Bolsonaro’s intervention in institutions that should maintain their autonomy to fight corruption.
The comments were part of a document that was classified as “confidential” at the time.
For the party, “it will not be possible to improve the efficiency of public spending without further improvement in the fight against corruption and economic crime”. “Law enforcement is a necessary element to prevent impunity and ensure the credibility and legitimacy of institutions. Progress in the legal and institutional framework for law enforcement in Brazil has been key to the success of recent tolerance agreements, federal police, financial intelligence agency, public ministry, competition Together with empowering executive bodies such as the supervisory body and tax authorities, it will be the basis for the construction of past advances against political interference”, he argued.
But the OECD’s warning was clear. “Recently, the de facto autonomy of all these bodies has been questioned by an unusual presidential intervention in the process of selecting key offices.‘ he pointed.
“Avoiding political interference through rules-based electoral processes in the future and formalizing the operational and budgetary autonomy of these bodies will be crucial to avoid setbacks in the fight against corruption.”
Now the doubt is that such “presidential interference” could be real. It is a pity that this fell precisely in the year of the World Cup. We can’t blame the lack of CBF shirts on the streets. After all, we pray that the 30-year-old millionaire boy who wears the number 10 will finally fulfill his adult role, as they hide for us to celebrate together “with great pride, with much love” that we are Brazilians.
Could selective anger be proof that it was never corruption that brought people to the streets in those years of protests? Or is the silence the hum of a tired country?
Whatever the explanation, the audio recordings do not reveal who Bolsonaro is. They opened up who we are today.
source: Noticias
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