Aécio calls himself "ethical," "new," but resorts to the "sea of ​​mud" of Carlos Lacerda the Crow.

I was thinking about the issue of corruption, and, in turn, about the statements of the neoliberal candidate and PSDB member, Aécio Neves. The politician from Minas Gerais is in third place in the presidential race. Lacking a government program and a national project, he cunningly resorts to themes like corruption, the favorite theme of conservatives since the days of the UDN of Carlos Lacerda, a radical right-wing politician also known by the nickname "The Crow".

Aécio Neves considers himself very concerned about corruption, starting with the PSDB's Mensalão scandal, whose protagonist is his ally, the former governor of Minas Gerais, Eduardo Azeredo, a member of the PSDB party. Furthermore, the presidential candidate of the PSDB and the "coxinhas" (a derogatory term for right-wingers) who defend the interests of the rich, without themselves being rich, forgets that the advertising executive Marcos Valério, the operator of the Mensalão schemes and currently imprisoned, comes from the ranks of the PSDB—the Minas Gerais branch.

However, Aécio Neves, a senator with a mediocre performance in the Senate, continues to speak about corruption at his whim, so that if someone is unaware, or merely alienated, they fall for his empty and unintelligent discourse, which is full of malice and venom.

A recurring discourse, older than walking upright, but one that has become the only way for the right wing to fight the labor and republican parties in power, just as they did in the times of Getúlio Vargas, Juscelino Kubitschek, and João Goulart. The old, stale coup-mongering discourse, reinvigorated with the approach of elections. Therefore, criminal, because it lacks truth—a lie, in the style of the UDN (National Democratic Union), and with the obscurantist support of billionaire media magnates from private businesses and their trusted employees, who are worse than their bosses.

And why does this happen cyclically? Because the right wing, in this case the PSDB (DEM/PPS), has no concrete proposals aimed at further improving the living conditions of the Brazilian people, nor surpassing what the PT has already done in the last 12 years, in social and economic terms. Period! The ruling class has never done and doesn't want to do anything for the people.

Historically, it has always behaved this way, leaving it only to resort to the old, idiotic, and coup-mongering accusation exemplified in the more than worn-out UDN (National Democratic Union) phrase "Sea of ​​mud." The "mud" that—according to opposition and editorially conservative magazines and newspapers, such as "Veja," "Folha," and "O Globo"—is sinking the Labor Government, as well as Petrobras, the largest company in Latin America, one of the largest oil companies in the world, and which causes genuine hatred among the slave-owning right wing of Brazil.

Petrobras was recovered and today, in addition to exploring the vastness of the pre-salt layer, it has the undeniable support of the Brazilian shipbuilding industry, currently the fourth largest in the world, which, during the neoliberal and pro-PSDB government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, went bankrupt, causing Brazil to buy ships in Singapore and employ workers from that country, instead of employing Brazilian workers in their own land, in order to improve daily living conditions.

Petrobras, which fills the nation with pride, yet causes hatred and contempt among the middle class and the bourgeoisie—classes with submissive profiles and an indescribable inferiority complex, possessing a nostalgia with colonial connotations. Their admiration and subservience for foreign powers, which dominate their minds and characters in an imperialistic and colonial way, is inexplicable, stripping them of any sense of Brazilian identity and self-determination. A total lack of self-esteem. A shameful subservience! A provincial and insecure "elite," with a vocation for being overseers, and consequently, for betrayal, as happened in 1964.

Unfounded attacks, without any evidence against Petrobras and occurring before the elections, with the undeniable purpose of undermining Dilma Rousseff's Workers' Party candidacy and discrediting the Workers' Party government as a manager. The same government that recovered Petrobras, invested heavily in all its sectors and segments, hired thousands of workers through competitive exams, as well as recovered and built shipyards, in addition to platforms similar to the P-36, at the time the largest oil exploration platform in the world, which was sunk during the government of FHC, that PSDB member who went to the IMF three times, on his knees, humiliated and with his hand outstretched, because he bankrupted Brazil three times.

Now society has to put up with the antics of Aécio Neves and his puppets, badmouthing Petrobras, taking advantage of the complicity of the mainstream press to spread lies and nonsense from the former director of Petrobras, Paulo Roberto Costa, without any concern for the truth or for the fall in the shares of such an important state-owned company.

His party, the PSDB, the organization that sold off Brazil, including strategic state-owned companies like Telebras, Embratel, and Vale do Rio Doce, wants to create a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) when, just a few months ago, it undermined the Petrobras CPI, where its representatives missed almost all sessions because they knew, deep down, that the accusations had no basis in truth. The accusations against Petrobras are electioneering and aim to harm the Labor candidate Dilma Rousseff. That's it, and nothing more.

It would be comical if it weren't tragic, the audacity of a candidate who governed Minas Gerais for the rich at the expense of the poor and the middle class. The latter, poor things, still believe that one day the doors of the bourgeoisie will be opened to them. Good heavens, only a fool believes in illusions. This is the case of the petty bourgeoisie employed by the rich, with delusions of grandeur, full of prejudices and, above all, without control of the means of production. The pretentious class that has nowhere to fall dead.

The ruling class knows where the shoe pinches. It always has, and that's why it considers Petrobras a symbol of Brazilian independence since the time of statesman Getúlio Vargas and the civic and nationalist movement "The Oil is Ours!", which defeated the interests of the right wing at the time. Veja — the Last Flower of Fascism — is accustomed to publishing articles with political and electoral connotations. Its associates in journalistic fakery, the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo, Estadão, Correio Braziliense, Zero Hora and O Globo, echo Veja's Saturday "report" on Sunday, starting with the Globo program "Fantástico".

This program has long served as a political platform for the corporate press to continue the discussion on Mondays, through "Jornal Nacional" and its counterparts, promoting a flawed, tattered, manipulated, and, if necessary, mendacious journalism. The truth is, if it sticks, it sticks. It's a long-known strategy implemented by the sycophants of gutter journalism. In other words: to maximize the political damage to the government, or to government officials or authorities.

However, if the accusations or inferences are not proven, that's the problem of whoever was mentioned or affected, because the damage, the destruction of their personal and institutional image, has already been done, as everyone knows and understands. Explaining later that "a pig's snout isn't an electrical outlet" is a whole other matter and a problem for whoever was often wronged.

Ultimately, who is telling the labor and democratic governments of Dilma and Lula not to implement the regulatory framework for the media? Who is telling them not to regulate the Constitution? While all sectors of the economy are regulated, the media segment acts and conducts itself as it pleases, as it sees fit, including attempting political coups daily, because if they have the opportunity to overthrow another labor president, make no mistake, the billionaire media magnates and their lavishly paid henchmen will do it. Don't be fooled. The past of these people is proof and counter-proof of their "good" intentions.

Aécio Neves has incredibly hinted that he will use the statements of Paulo Roberto Costa, imprisoned by the Justice Department, leaked by "Veja" magazine, whose report proves and substantiates nothing. It's merely speculation thrown into the air, as is always disseminated by this editorially poor, far-right rag that has no commitment whatsoever to the truth, and therefore to its readers, whose numbers are dwindling over time.

Since the Brazilian right-wing program boils down to privatization and implementing "bitter measures" for workers, students, and housewives, thus favoring financial market players and rentiers, according to announcements by neoliberal privatizers Eduardo Gianetti (Marina Silva) and Armínio Fraga (Aécio Neves), Aécio Neves is left with the option of talking about corruption, using as a pretext the articles from the private media system against the Labor Government.

What can you do, right? Those who don't work seriously; those who don't distribute income and wealth when in power; those who don't fight for the emancipation of the people and the independence of Brazil have no choice but to turn lies, fallacies, and manipulation into their lifeline. This is how conservative parties and the foreign press act to garner votes from the unwary, the alienated, the politically illiterate, or simply to gain the trust of the right-wing electorate.

The right wing, driven by ideology or colonialist sentiment, bets on a country on its knees, trailing behind the European Union and the United States, as has always been the case before Lula and Dilma Rousseff won the Presidency. Only during the governments of Getúlio Vargas and João Goulart was there also an effective implementation of an independent foreign policy, not aligned with the so-called developed countries. The foreign policy implemented by the PT government is certainly also one of the main reasons for the hatred and intolerance of the Brazilian bourgeoisie with its colonized soul.

Having concluded the proceedings, and knowing that the PSDB candidate Aécio Neves has not developed any programs or projects to present to the Brazilian people, as he is a programmatically empty candidate, I have decided to assist him in his arduous, quixotic struggle against iniquity and human wrongdoing, while also taking the opportunity to present some more cases of "alleged" corruption, because I hope that the PSDB candidate will tenaciously and even fiercely demand the resolution of these cases.

So here we go: 1) Tucano Privatization; 2) PSDB Mensalão; 3) DEM Mensalão; Furnas List; 4) São Paulo Train Scandal; 5) São Paulo Metro Scandal; 6) Banestado Case; 7) Health Vampires; 8) Marka Bank; 9) São Paulo Regional Labor Court; 10) Razor in the Flesh; 11) Sudan Case; 5) Budget Dwarfs, among many other scandals that occurred in Tucano governments, which have already been mentioned, including by the mainstream press.

As you can see, Aécio, the PSDB candidate, has several full plates... And he could, if he so desires or it suits him, begin to fill his belly and satisfy his immense hunger for justice. He just can't play the champion of justice, morality, ethics, and good customs only against his adversaries, because the PSDB's closets are full of skeletons. Incidentally, that's the point.

The truth is that the governments that truly fought corruption were the PT governments of Lula and Dilma. And who knows this? I'll tell you: the bourgeois press, which manipulates the truth; the Federal Police and the Public Prosecutor's Office, in addition to some "agents" who leak processes and investigations, including those under judicial secrecy, to the mainstream press, as is happening now with the statements of the former director of Petrobras, Paulo Roberto Costa, to "Veja" (always them), but which were not officially and institutionally recognized by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Police.

Now, let's get to the burning questions: Who leaked the prisoner's investigation? What is the role of the Minister of Justice, Eduardo Cardozo, whose Federal Police is subordinate to him? Why is it usually "Veja"—the Last Flower of Fascism—that publishes such leaked reports from government employees? Why doesn't the right-wing PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) present government proposals and a national project for the Brazilian people? Why does the right dedicate itself to gossip, trickery, swindling, corrupt journalism, and essentially shoddy and low-class politics? The floor is yours, those interested...

Aécio Neves, a member of the PSDB party, calls himself "ethical" and "new," but he resorts to the old and outdated coup-mongering rhetoric of Carlos Lacerda, a member of the UDN party, and the entire Brazilian right wing throughout the centuries. Present your program to the people, Aécio, and compare it to the PT's. That's how politics is done. That's it.