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A powerful array of institutional/oligarchic interests is behind the rabid demonization of all things Workers' Party.
The interminable, ghastly telenovela aiming at turning Brazil, the seventh-largest economy in the world, into a Banana Republic of Scoundrels while destroying its economy, is-like the infamous GWOT (Global War on Terror) - a gift that keeps on giving.
No, this would never qualify as a Shakespearean tragedy or even a Monty Python sketch. Neither tragic nor funny; just nasty, brutish and overwhelmingly pathetic.
Center stage once again is Sergio Moro, the puny provincial prosecutor with an Elliott Ness complex, in charge of the blatantly one-sided Car Wash corruption investigation. Moro is a pure product of Hollywood screenwriting. He is investigator, judge, executioner; in sum, he incarnates The Law. A Magnum-deprived Dirty Harry, but armed with plenty of cheap suits.
After the golpeachment of Dilma Rousseff, it didn't take long for Moro to play his joker: Lula in jail by all means necessary.
It started with a-pathetically amateurish-Powerpoint presentation by the provincial crusaders in the southern Brazilian state which doubles as Car Wash's seat, insisting they are "convinced" Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva is guilty of being the Don Corleone in a vast corruption ring. But they have no proof.
Ooops. They did it again (for the third time, actually). So sub-Elliott Ness had to run back to his handlers - in the belly of the Empire of Chaos - for new "instructions." Moro, after all, was the lucky recipient of all that savory NSA spying on Petrobras, the Brazilian Energy Ministry and (regime-changed) President Rousseff.
Lula, ever the old fox, nailed it - observing how Moro has built, alongside the ultra-right-wing Globo media empire, a framework according to which Brazilian mainstream media is able to condemn anyone at will: "There are leaks and no one knows who leaked. Before proof is presented on whether the leak is true or false, five headlines are out. Then, you are guilty."
Lula was referring to Moro's by-the-book application of the 1990s Italian Mani Pulite proceedings - when all guilty verdicts were media-induced. In the remixed Brazilian version, the Public Ministry, the Federal Police and the Judiciary as a whole have been totally monopolized by political interests - all of them opposed to the Workers' Party - with full corporate media support. The whole Brazilian political system is astonishingly corrupt to the core; but Car Wash only targets the Workers' Party.
Lula was not judged, he was HUNTED, by a judicial system that broke its own laws and rules in order to sent him to jail. The judge who condemned him has ties with the USA and we have no doubt this is being done to take our oil (pre salt reserve) and also to prevent Brazil from going against US/Israel interests in the international arena. Remember, Lula helped fund the BRICS.