The Amazon and the Pantanal Free of Sugarcane? Well, Sort of

With the new zoning for sugarcane, the Lula government plans to impede the production of sugarcane in the Amazon and the Pantanal, in so far that it will not allow the expansion of the production of these crops in the Amazônia Legal and the Pantanal. Thus, more than half the country will be exempted from sugarcane production? Well, not quite, as Lula com suis. only are talking about the expansion and not about the existing sugarcane production in these areas.

Last month, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met with the Minister of Agriculture, Reinhold Stephanes, and the Minister of Environment, Carlos Minc, to end the clash between these two about this subject. The new rules will be published mid-September, as the government does not yet know if the zoning will be governed by a presidential decree or by law.

According to people close to the government, the new zoning only applies to future areas of sugarcane planting. In other words areas already cultivated in the region of the Amazônia Legal and the Pantanal (and illegally deforested in the past) will not be blocked.

According to one of the participants of the meeting in which the ministers overcame their differences over the expansion of the area allowed to receive sugarcane plantation, the zoning has as goal to point out areas where the production of sugarcane can be expanded up to 2017.

Government calculations show that some 8 million hectares of Brazilian territory are in use for sugarcane, less than 1% of the total planted area in the country. Confident in a significant increase of bio-fuel demand in the foreign markets in the years to come, the government wants to double the production of sugarcane. By creating a zoning that permits the expansion of planted area the government hopes to avoid (international) criticism in regard to Brazil’s biomes, According to government studies the sugarcane production can grow with 7 million hectares over the next eight years without further contamination of the Amazon and the Pantanal.

Pres. Lula and Minister Stephanes

One of the subjects of contention between Minc and Stephanes was the planting of sugarcane in Alto Paraguay area in Mato Grosso. It is an area of some 28.000 km² which concentrates many springs that stream into the Pantanal.

Stephanes accepted the zoning that will preserve the Pantanal and the Amazon, but wanted the Alto Paraguay region included in the production potential. The position of the Minister of Agriculture was however isolated. Minc and the other ministers were opposed to this exception and were able to convince Lula.
“I am determined to be against any change that influences the Pantanal,” Lula told the ministers at the meeting. According to officials close to the presidency, there are two reasons that led Lula to decide for a total protection of the Pantanal and the Amazônia Legal.

One is that Brazil needs to maintain a strong environmental discourse to defend the expansion of ethanol production compared to other fuels in the world. This would open doors for the export of Brazilian ethanol.

The other reason that prompted Lula to refuse the exception requested by Stephanes is that there is no need to use a part of the Pantanal biome for the expansion of the sugarcane production, since the 7 million hectares available in other areas is enough to double the production by 2017.

The discussion about the new zoning of sugarcane has lasted more than a year.
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The Cerrado Suffers Worse Than The Amazon

Each year Brazil deforests an area of 20 square kilometres of the savannah region, here called the Cerrado. That’s twice as much as what Brazil is deforesting in the Amazon.

Minister of the Environment, Carlos Minc, announced the approval of an amendment to the Constitution which makes the Cerrado and the Caatinga national heritage. “It’s of utmost importance that we also extend the monitoring of deforestation to other biomes such as the Caatinga, Pantanal and Pampa”, Carlos Minc said.

“Beginning in June 2010,” he said, “it will be possible to set targets to reduce the deforestation in all biomes. The Cerrado is the source of most of the country’s abundance of water and it can’t be allowed that it is harmed by agribusiness,” he said.

“Ten years ago, according to our data, as well in the Amazon as in the Cerrado 20 thousand square kilometres per year were cleared. Thanks to the programs implemented by the government we have reduced the deforestation of the Amazon biome with 50%. The bad news is that we are yet to do so in the Cerrado,” said Minc.

source: Agency Brazil

Morality and Ethics – A Voice in the Wilderness

Don’t think I am the only one frustratingly writing about Brazil at this moment. Luckily you meet others also struggling with the present disastrous political situation in Brazil and what they write is worth a translation in English. Here a free translation of an article, written by the O Globo reader Adelson Oliveira dos Santos. I added some words at the end.

The ethical and moral degradation that currently rages in the Brazilian Senate – labelled the “House of Horrors” by British magazine “The Economist” and also known as: House of Ali Baba and the 40 Robbers, House of the Maharajas, House of the “I’m not there for to people”, House of Nepotism, House of the ‘Colonels’ and other sly foxes.

Anyway, back to the topic, I think that all this widespread ‘delirium tremens’ not solely is related to “your excellences”, who are paid by the people to improve the lives of that same people. I think that with the senators, a lot more people are responsible for all that mud, starting with the judges and the courts, which, due to their formal blindness, their shameful failure and their relativist arguments, do not punish anyone. The facts show, that the persons at the top, have the money to hire lawyers, who are embroiled in the loopholes of the law. And when the loopholes are not sufficient to save somebody, the courts just never come to a conviction.

Result: Due to the existing general impunity, you find in the “House of Horrors”, the most dangerous and corrupt scoundrels, shielded by cooperating partners and privileged by the discredited political institutions in this country. I think if the dirt is muddy in the Senate, everywhere else it is a puddle of mud.

But this is not the way things should work. The Senate is an institution of the Republic that touches the lives of all Brazilian citizens either for the good or for the bad, but due to malpractice and corruption, the members of the Senate sit at the bottom of a cesspit, rotted, degenerated and corrupted. And if you touch the lives of all Brazilians, the question which arises all the time, is: “Why are the Brazilians not revolting? Where are the marches and demonstrations in the streets for ethics in politics? Where is the OAB (Association of Lawyers), the Organization for Human Rights, the Public Ministry, the intellectuals, the “painted-faces”, showing the world that Brazil is a serious country?

This immoral silence depresses me and zooms in my ears. We can not leave the solution of the problems in the Senate in the hands of a few senators who resist, fight and rampage heroically against the malpractices of the Senate’s president José Sarney, malpractices cynically concealed by the government of President Lula, who is enchanted by power and want to continue his mamata*), his fairy-travels with the AeroLula, and maintain at any cost, what is there.

The moral decay that now shakes the Senate does not relate only to senators. It relates also to the people. The people alienated and opportunistic, who elected this gang of fuckups, by selling their votes for some food, a brick, a promise, a Bolsa Família or public employment. Related also, are the elites who, in exchange for benefits, any advantage, contributed to put these individuals in the “House of Horrors” to execute maracutaias*) and manage our destinations.

And now José? What do you think to do? Or what do you think the people accept? To solve the problem the people have only two exits: either they remain silent onlookers, as you, José, continue stimulating the degradation of the Senate’s ethics and morality, until the election of 2010, or the people go to the street, all of them, and require ethics in politics and the abandonment of malpractice of the established mob.

Yeah. After all, when the civil principles, ethics and morality, do not stand up anymore, nothing else remains than the barricades in the streets. Revolution was invented for it. Finally, I share the words of the philosopher Romano: “There are not enough words to describe the degradation and ethical corruption of the Brazilian State. We need someone with the capacity of a Dante Alighieri, because it is a hell”, referring to the Italian political writer and author of the Divina Comedia.

But the Brazilian people don’t go to the street, never ever. And the next election? The people will elect the same crooks, who elected, will declare that the voters absolved them, so that they can start again corrupting the system and enriching themselves and their friends. In Brazil nothing changes. It is and always will remain a third world country, whatever its wealth and technological status.
Charles de Gaulle’s famous words: “This is not a serious country”, spoken decades ago, are still valid.

*) Mamata = a government in which financial benefits are given to politicians and protected persons without any services in return in relation to the volume of the benefits received.
*) Maracutaia (literally: Shocker) = is a mischievous and illegal manoeuvre against one or several persons, to obtain profit or benefits for another person or particular group. It is an act of bad faith.

Note: Not surprisingly José Sarney is absolved by the Ethics Commission of The Senate. Back to business.

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A double-digit economic grow is no guarantee for a prominent position in the world

There were 93 million Brazilians, the industry still crawled and inflation edged at 20%. This was the 1969 profile of Brazil. Four decades later, Brazilians have experienced the effects of external crises, the default on external debt, inflation that exceeded 2,000% and a jumping industry. The boom lasted until the end of the 70s – the so called Brazilian miracle. It was followed by another cycle of low growth and rising inflation. Gradually, the country begins to resume the path of growth, but still falls shockingly behind when compared to other countries.

The most striking example is South Korea. 40 years ago, the per capita income in Brazil was almost twice the Korean. In 2007, the last data available for comparison, the situation was reversed with a wide margin in favour of Korea. In recent years, the Brazilian income represents only 30% of the Korean.

What led Brazil to fall so grossly behind? The answer comes from Luiz Roberto Cunha, professor at the PUC (University in Rio): the lack of massive investment in technology and education:
“Investment in education is restricted to private institutions and in which only the cheaper courses, like Law and Administration, are available. Little is invested in engineering and computing. Albeit this difference determined the expansion of emerging countries, the Brazilian state never had and still doesn’t have any intention to invest.

It’s not only the lack of proper basic education that frustrates the future of this country, but worse, the shortage of a professionally educated workforce will bring Brazil on its knees and the country in disarray. The availability of commodities exported without any added value can’t last.

The under-educated people, who represent the majority of the Brazilians, will remain in poverty. And don’t expect Lula with all his rhetoric and surrounded by his corrupt friends to improve this situation. No way there is any interest in a real advancement of the Brazilian plebeians.

A Presidential Dictionary

Based on Lula’s speeches, a new book, written by the journalist Ali Kamel, examines Lula’s popularity, in spite of his verbal excessiveness.

In the public opinion there are three Lula’s:

President Lula is a great orator, a communicator with no equals in recent history of this country, who uses his own life path to make him in a simple way understood by the people, managing the traditional family values, his personal rise in society and conciliation. The talent of his oratory and the link he creates with the common crowd are factors that naturally turbines his stratospheric popularity.

President Lula is a politician who deliberately simplifies, for electoral purposes, the complex task of governing Brazil. Frequently he commits blunders in reference to the history of the country and the world, demonstrating his ignorance of common facts. He uses vulgar words and distressing metaphors. Often, he ridicules his own ignorance and despises those who have more knowledge than he has.

President Lula is the undisputed leader or (depends on who you speak to) a puppet on a string of a movement, called here in Brazil petralha. Petralha is the contraction of PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores = Brazilian socialist party) and the Irmãos Metralha (The Beagle Boys in English). The word identifies a member of a moralistic political party that when in power, deceives, steals, kills, lies, corrupts and installs a cleptocracia, in other words a state governed by crooks.

Which of the three profiles of President Lula is correct? Probably, all three.

The reader of the above mentioned, recently by Ed. New Frontier (671 pages), published book should be able to distil with clarity the real Lula from this monumental work written by Ali Kamel. His “Lula’s Dictionary – a president exposed by his own words” is the result of a research whereby, never shown before in this country, a president is characterised not by what others have to say about him, but by what he says about others, and with overwhelming frequency about himself.
An authentic autobiography.

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Lula’s Launderette

(In this post I will use a lot of names anybody outside the Brazilian inner world doesn’t know. But that’s not important; it is the context of the story that tells the ruin Brazil is in. The names are just illustration, however real)

Ex-Senator Antonio Carlos Magalhães, Godfather of the oligarchic family who rules Bahia inaugurated Lula’s Launderette.
In 2003, accused of tapping phones of political opponents in the federal state of Bahia, he ran the risk to be tried for breaking decorum by the Senate Ethics Commission. However: he had supported Lula’s presidential election the previous year and Lula returned the favour by securing Magalhães’ mandate. From that moment on, Lula’s Launderette was an absolute success.

Between Antonio Carlos Magalhães and José Sarney, another Godfather of an oligarchic family, this time in the federal state of Maranhâo, member of one of the most corrupt political parties in the country the PMDB, and the latest customer of Lula’s Launderette, Lula handled a lot of dirty laundry.

Lula doesn’t transform dirty clothes in immaculate clothes. Up till now, he does not work miracles. Tomorrow, you never know. But Lula always tries to prevent that the grubby clothes in play end up discarded as useless garbage. Most times he succeeds.

Lula does not discriminate between loyal allies, not reliable allies, moderate opponents and historic adversaries. If Lula sees an advantage in rinsing their dirty laundry until they recoup some of the lost purity or get rid of the compromising spots, he will carry out the laundering with pleasure.

About the controversial Roberto Jefferson, then President of the PTB (the Brazilian Labour Party), Lula said he was a man who he would trust with a blank cheque. The man worthy of such confidence let erupt a scandal that almost toppled Lula’s government.
Amid the scandal, informed about the possibility that publicity agent Marcos Valério planned to tell everything he knew, Lula, influenced by a few to many doses of alcohol, started to talk about resignation.
But it was God himself who came to his rescue. Lula only quieted down when they assured him that Valério was under control. And is that till today.

It doesn’t matter how thoroughly you look around, you will not find any hard words from Lula about Jefferson. Ahh, compliments you possibly will find.
You also find nothing against Jose Dirceu, Lula’s former first minister and qualified by the Attorney General’s Office as the head of a “sophisticated criminal organization” that sought to conquer a part of the state apparatus.
Lula choose Dirceu to pay for yet another corruption scandal. To compensate him, Lula white-washes the biography of his friend, every time he thinks it to be necessary.

He was almost offering a public apology to Antonio Palocci who Lula had to dismiss as Minister of Finance, forced by the scandal about the bank secrecy breach of Francenildo Pereira. Palocci swore before a CPI that he never attended a suspicious house in Brasilia.
Francenildo Pereira vowed to have seen him there a dozen times. Lula called Palocci “my brother” and dreams of the day he can re-install him in the government.

And “our Delúbio”, huh? And Romero Jucá, who offered non-existent farms as collateral for a loan, taken from an official bank? Lula came out in defence of both.
With a voice hoarse from repeating: “Nobody is guilty until convicted by the courts.”

According to the letter of the law this is correct. But what the populace expects from a president is not the same as what it expects from a judge. Presidents have to satisfy society. A judge, only his conscience. A bad example set by a judge, can in no way be compared to a bad example exhibited by the person most closely watched and admired by the Brazilians.

Was Lula’s commitment to maintain Renan Calheiros (member of the already mentioned corrupt PMDB) in the chair of the Senate, a good example? He almost succeeded.
When he called Sarney an “extra-ordinary” person and required from his political party the PT to support him in office, did Lula give a good example?

Lula’s Launderette provides invaluable services to its founder and sole owner, and also to those who need it. At this moment the launderette in working in high gear. There are so many corruption scandals popping up around Lula, that Lula might not be able to find time to white-wash his own laundry,

This will be Lula’s legacy. A continuous, never ending story of laundering corruption scandals. Even his labelled successor and present first minister Dilma Rousseff, is involved in a new corruption scandal, as she fired the head of the Federal Tax Office, Lina Vieira, who refused to abort an investigation of tax fraud by the son of Sarney. Indeed the same as we are talking being involved in the Senate corruption scandals.
Lina Vieira is not the first and only honest public servant in a high place, who is taken out by the Lula government. There is a long list, but honesty doesn’t stand a chance, it will be eliminated, all of it, as the country is ruled by a relatively small group of crooks.

How many corruption scandals will pop up before the presidential elections in November next year? Will it alert the Brazilian voter? Or will they be as sheepish as with every election and elect the corrupt oligarchic families and their vassals back in power.
You see, Brazil is the country of the future, and that ……. will never ever change. The absolute degradation of ethics and morality takes care of that.

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For this post I (mis)used the essentials of a blog-post written by Ricardo Noblat.

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Brazilians and Their Values

“Values” was the subject of a study as part of the Brazilian Human Development Report, commissioned by the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP). According to the study, questioning 500 thousand Brazilians, the country, even today, is lacking values. With the open question: “What should change in Brazil to really improve your life?”, most responded with: the lack of respect, honesty, justice, peace, love, the absence of prejudice, humanity, the spiritual value, responsibility and awareness, together with the expected: education, safety, health and employment.

The coordinator of the report, Flávio Comim of PrimaPágina, a market research company, sees the answers as something that “leads us to a new concept of values of life: not only morally or ethically, not just financially, but the values practiced day to day.” As it was the first time that such a research was accompanied with an open question, allowing respondents to answer as they wish, he believes this influenced the results. Of course, there were problems in the responses related to health, education and employment, but this time the Brazilians could write down the “hows” and “whys”. It was also the first time worldwide that a national report of the UNDP had chosen for an open question.

To the most objective questions, people responded in the first place to education and violence, themes that will be highlighted in the report. As for education, increased demand didn’t go to more content, but to a lack of school space that is supposed to transmit values to students. On violence, which appeared most were complaints about the violence against the person such as aggression, rather than violence against property and theft.

Among those who responded to the market survey, were residents of the largest Brazilian municipalities and the ten with the lowest Human Development Index (HDI). Respondents could also participate on the website of the campaign, while customers of companies like TIM (telephony), Natura (cosmetics) and those visiting the sites of Globo TV and MTV could also fill in the questionnaire. According to Flávio Comim, it was evident that the partner companies were responsible for the large number of respondents to the market survey.

The challenge now is to change the Brazilian society and to give body to the “values” mentioned in the report. An impossible task with the larger part of Congressmen, Senators and other public officials as corrupt as possible and a president who is the ultimate representative of the ‘petralha’ movement.

Note: the word “petralha” I defined in a previous post. If you want to know the definition click here.

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One of the Natural Wonders of the World

It is quite frustrating to have nothing else to write about then the amazing number of corruption scandals in Congress and Senate and the president of the Brazilian Republic himself, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, trivialising this criminal behaviour.

Therefore and as it is the dry season in the Amazon region, this and next posts will highlight the beauty of the Amazônia, as long as it still exists.
To see this marvel the tourist has to be very quick as just in less than one year (August 2008 till May 2009) 1.084 km2 has been cut down. Ok, it is getting better as in the previous year some 4.143 km2 has been deforested with the federal states of Pará (37%) and Mato Grosso (27%) in the lead.

Here, everything is superlative: there are 5.5 million km2 of forest rich in biological reserves, which has millions of plant and animal species and extends to nine countries. And the Amazon River, with its largest watershed on the planet, is also the longest on Earth, with 6.992 kilometers – the discovery was made in 2008, until then, it was thought that the champion was the River Nile, in Africa.

Crisscrossing the Amazon delta, the best way is by boat, and being somewhere in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest the visitor is overwhelmed by this unique experience. Fortunately there are still optimists, who believe the Amazon will survive. One of them is Carlos Joly, professor of plant biology from the Institute of Biology of UNICAMP (SP), stating:  “Brazil has well-preserved natural environments, with features difficult to find anywhere else in the world.” That’s true, for as long as it takes to cut it down.

I am less optimistic. One of the Natural Wonders of the World will be destroyed in due course by Environment Criminals. Don’t worry; they will take care of that. And Lula? Ah, he only cries: “The Amazon is ours.” in other words: let it be cut down, burned and destroyed by my friends for their enrichment and the “welfare of the nation”.

Words are unable to describe the beauty, so let’s be still and let the photographer tell the story. Enjoy!

Note: I borrowed the photos. They may not be copied without the express permission of the Author.

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President Lula and the Prisoner’s Mother

As incoherent as a Wild West shooting was the dialogue between the TV reporter and a woman, who was crying on the sidewalk in front of a prison where a rebellion was enkindling.

“You have family there?”

“My son,” a distressed voice tells the reporter, “he ran into some trouble due to bad company, but he is a very good boy.”

The son’s record shows however that it’s not just ‘some trouble he ran into’: murder, armed robbery, rape, attempted murder, and from there on. The mother doesn’t know anything, or pretends to know nothing. Her son is a very good boy.

As incoherent as this conversation during the prison rebellion, is the arbitrary acquittal by President Lula of all offenders, who belong to his inner circle. Embezzlement, theft, robbery, money laundering, racketeering, organised crime, invading bank secrecy, and one or two mayors murdered – whatever the committed crime, the perpetrators remain innocent. According to Lula they are good companions. They are good boys. Of course, the press is the perpetrator, as it suffers from an epidemic need to accuse and sees sin where only is virtue.

José Dirceu, Antonio Palocci, Matilde Ribeiro, Benedita da Silva, Severino Cavalcanti, Jader Barbalho, Renan Calheiros, Fernando Collor, Romero Jucá, all mensaleiros (accomplices who receive monthly bribes), all sanguessugas (leeches), all aloprados (persons, who according to Lula not know what they do) and now the president of the Senate José Sarney ─ the list is as long as the telephone directory of the ruling class. And Lula keeps up the pretension he doesn’t know anything.

The difference between president Lula and the mother of the prisoner is that she tries to help a criminal who is behind bars because he is an ordinary person, Lula only helps criminals who remain at liberty because they are uncommon. Destination turned her into a genuine mother of an arrested criminal. His slyness turns Lula into the mother of criminals on the loose.

It is almost impossible to list all the scandals popped up during the almost 7 years of a Lula administration, It is even worse trying to summarize them, because, stacked, they form a mountain. Paradoxically, the more cases of fraud appear, the more, president Lula appears to be blind.

Can you believe that all this happened and still happens in a government elected on a platform of morality and ethics? Can you believe the president is affiliated to a party, when still in the opposition, behaved like the pedant of the world? It didn’t work out that way, of course. But still, Lula has a voter’s approval of almost 90% in the Northeast, where he became the “Father of the Poor”. Not even a sociological study would be able to explain these contradictions.

Nothing explains this moral decay that gives high popularity levels to Lula da Silva. We have the impression that the exhaustive repetition of scandals, corruption and attacks against the order, promoted by the government itself, eventually stops influencing the norm of conduct of poor minded Brazilians – let’s say: the majority – which elected Lula as its ultimate representative.

Considering normal mental faculties, any voter with minimal consciousness, will refuse to approve of a man who is the summary of deterioration of moral values which should build and sustain a healthy society.

Note: This is a free compilation of two Brazilian blogs: first the blog of Augusto Nunes in Veja and second the blog of Gabriela/Arthur at Movimento da Ordem Vigilia contra Corrupção

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The Howler

I don’t have to relate here about the events and emotions in Iran. The Pullitzer-Prize-worthy blogging of Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic and Nico Pitney at HuffPost are appallingly complete and deeply moving. They embody Obama’s words: “We are bearing witness”.

Using Andrew Sullivan’s words: “Did you notice how many times he [Obama] invoked the word “justice” in his message? That’s the word that will resonate most deeply with the Iranian resistance. What a relief to have someone with this degree of restraint and prudence and empathy – refusing to be baited by Khamenei or the neocons, and yet taking an eloquent stand, as we all do, in defense of freedom and non-violence.”

In stark contrast to Obama’s eloquent stand and the cautiousness of the European government leaders, Lula, the great world leader, saw fit to defame the standing of Brazil and its people in the world.
As a belligerent child, who sees his beloved toy taken away from him, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared in Geneva, that based on personal experience, the protests currently taking place in Iran are a reaction of losers, and that the controversy surrounding the re-election of Ahmadinejad will not change his intention to travel to Tehran in the near future.

In this hour of desperation, while the Iranian people are demonstrating in the streets for their democratic rights, Lula can only talk about trade between Brazil and Iran.
“I want to go to Iran, I pretend to fix a date and visit Iran because we are interested in building a partnership with Iran, interested in trade with Iran,” he said.

At a press conference, to emphasize his understanding of world politics and the definition of democracy, he stated that Iranian’s actual president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has 61 or 62% of the votes. How can you imagine fraud with such an impressive popular support?, he wondered.

“I do not know anyone other than the opposition, who should have disagreed with the Iranian election results. There are no figures available, there is no proof. For now, it’s just, you know, something between “flamenguistas and vascaínos,” (referring to two rivalling Brazilian football clubs).

Lula, the popular leader of the Brazilian dream, prototype of the common man that reached the highest levels of society, collided head-on with equality, with equal rights and obligations, with the principles of equality and democracy. With his imbecile statements he shook off his carefully built-up image as a reformist and took the cloth of the repressor and anti-libertarian.

The Brazilian president’s view on the election in Iran does not make the slightest difference – either in Tehran or anywhere else in the world, but it is revoltingly gross to compare the peaceful demonstrations for justice of the Iranian people to two rivalling Brazilian football clubs.

Seeing his jaunt to Iran going beyond reach, he probably had meant to say to the Iranian people: “Sifu” (fuck you).
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Note 1: Lula used this obscene expression (Sifu meaning fuck you) during a meeting with governors. The TV-News outlet ‘Jornal Nacional’ qualified the words as “extravagant”, which was very generous of them.
Note 2: With the peaceful demonstrations getting approached with violence by the Iranian authorities and the hospitalized injured arrested by the Basiji, several foreign embassies in Tehran are helping to protect the victims and are taking in injured. Why is the Brazilian Embassy not on the list?

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