"Trillion-dollar interest rates are the condensed epitome of economic inequality and the concentration of income and wealth."

The trade agreement consolidates the re-primarization of the economy, limits national sovereignty, and compromises the future of Brazilian industry.

Adjustments below inflation, submission to fiscal austerity, and errors in prioritization expose contradictions in Lula's government.

Defending the primary surplus justifies social cuts and investment reductions, while preserving intact the transfer of public resources to the financial system.

The Central Bank demands fiscal austerity while ignoring its role.

The example offered by European society demonstrates that only mobilization will be able to stop this risk of returning to the times of colonial Brazil.

High interest rates deepen the recession, favor rent-seeking, and expose the disconnect between the Central Bank and the demands of the real economy.

Privatizations are advancing in the country under different governments and deepening the presence of private capital over essential services.

What urgently needs to be reviewed is the biased focus on cutting, cutting, and cutting only in social and investment areas.

As long as drugs continue to be the focus of police intervention, organized crime will have its highly profitable sources secured.

Last week ended with some fundamental questions regarding the political future of the Finance Minister.