The Institutional Demolisher

The institutional demolisher Never before had Brazil had so bawdy a president, a blabbermouth of easy, empty words. But words do weigh. When he execrates senators because they want to investigate the petrol giant stateowned Petrobras, calling them "pizza makers" (In Brazil, when an investigation is sabotaged, in order to protect the suspects, and ends without their punishment, which is rather usual, it's use to say it "ended in pizza"), Lula da Silva interferes in the other State Powers, disrespecting the most basic democratic principle, as he did many times, criticizing Justice, Accountability and Electoral Courts, and therefore contributing to cause unrest among the institutions and even to deteriorate them perhaps he aims it. The problem is that all this nonsense, abundantly said by the President, sure that his high popularity levels grant him the gift of eternal legal and moral immunity, are not published abroad, or seldom are. Were these verbal atrocities known by foreign analysts and authorities, perpetrated by him every single day, Brazil would be seen through different lenses, and more cautiously. And Mr. Obama would not have said of him "This is the guy". We have a President who adulate former enemies, notorious violators of laws and good conduct standards; who protects bearers of the worst curricula vitae. A dictator cajoler, who gathers with terrorists and assassins like Libya’s lifetime President Mu'ammar Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi, and who adores high-karat tyrants like Fidel Castro; a man who announces his support to elections fraudsters like anti-Semitic iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A chief of State whose diplomacy, as per his orientation, refuses to condemn the use of cluster-bombs, and avoids supporting legal prosecution and/or investigation of Human Rights violating countries' authorities.

A President who always surrenders to our neighbors exorbitant demands, like Argentina, with its unilateral impositions, or Bolivia, which expropriated refineries of his darling Petrobrás; the unabashed politician who plays the ridiculous role of proto-dictators' canvasser, as he did on behalf of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and bolivian Evo Morales. We, the Brazilian people, definitely didn't deserve such a president.