Brazil adrift opens space for intervention.

The truckers' strike, which paralyzed the country and forced Temer to use force to end the movement, exposed the inner workings of a misgoverned, adrift nation, navigating at the mercy of international interests. It became evident that the coup plotters, who seized power with false accusations against Dilma and the promise of promoting national development, had no government plan and were not concerned with the interests of the people. On the contrary, their objective was to serve the interests of the market, the moneyed elites, and especially American capital. Therefore, all their actions since assuming power two years ago have been directed towards handing over all our natural resources, especially oil, our strategic companies like Petrobras, Eletrobras, and Embraer—what remained of the sell-out policies of the FHC government—to foreign capital. And part of the population, deceived and dumbed down by the coup-mongering media, ended up being manipulated by the MBL (Movement of Free Fools), taking to the streets in yellow and banging pots and pans from the balconies of luxury buildings to support the actions that culminated in Temer's rise to power.

Those same yellow-clad protesters and pot-bangers, probably ashamed because they realized they were being used as pawns, simply disappeared without expressing indignation against the disastrous measures of the Temer government, not even showing their faces in the face of the fuel shortages that caused chaos in the country. They did, however, manage to stigmatize the yellow shirt of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) as the uniform of coup plotters, and therefore few have the courage to wear it to cheer for the Brazilian national football team. And many people who took to the streets carrying signs against Dilma, during whose government the price of gasoline was R$ 2,69 per liter, remained quiet, hidden, without protesting against the abusive increases in fuel prices. Some imbeciles, however, who remain anesthetized by the biased news coverage of the media, even went so far as to blame the truck drivers for the country's situation, even approving of Temer's act of calling in the Armed Forces to unblock the roads. They didn't learn their lesson, allowing themselves to be influenced once again by Globo's news coverage, which portrayed truck drivers as the main villains.

Despite the media's efforts to distort the facts, however, a large part of the population knows that the real culprits for the chaos into which the country has plunged are Michel Temer, the illegitimate president of the Republic, and Pedro Parente, president of Petrobras. Parente, who should have been dismissed long ago, was appointed by the PSDB party to continue the dismantling of Petrobras begun during Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government. He only failed to sell the state-owned oil company, whose name he tried to change to Petrobras, because his term expired before the process was completed, but he took the first major step towards committing treason by breaking the oil monopoly. And another PSDB member, José Serra, took the second step, removing the mandatory presence of Petrobras in pre-salt exploration. It's not difficult to perceive the strange obsession of the PSDB with destroying Petrobras, even while aware of the company's importance to Brazil's sovereignty. Why is Temer resisting firing Parente? Because he is certainly the key piece in his commitment to the Americans to remain in the Presidential Palace.

The fact is that the legitimate movement of independent truck drivers, harmed by the abusive increases in diesel prices, was deliberately confused with the interests of freight transport companies in order to criminalize it and give the government a reason to use force. However, judging by the content of videos posted from various parts of the country, what was observed was that the Temer government's move backfired, and the truck drivers began to call for military intervention, disillusioned not only with the government but also with the Legislative and Judicial branches. One truck driver even climbed onto an Army tank and, from there, demanded military intervention, to the applause of the crowd. A PM colonel called Temer a liar for claiming that the protesters were obstructing the roads. And the driver of a truck transporting oxygen contradicted Globo, saying that there was no harm to hospitals because all vehicles carrying that cargo traveled normally without any obstacles. Given this scenario, one gets the impression that a military intervention has become more likely after the truckers' strike.

This threat became more palpable not only because of the disastrous Temer government but also because of the shameful behavior of Congress, which approved all measures against the interests of the country and its people; and of the Supreme Federal Court, which revealed itself to be scandalously biased. Both, who were complicit in the coup that overthrew President Dilma Rousseff, lost the trust of the population. The president of the Supreme Court, Minister Carmen Lucia, however, in a recent interview admitted to having failed in her attempt to "pacify" the country. When did this attempt, which no one knows, take place? Pacify what, how? In fact, contrary to what she stated, what she did was inflame passions by maneuvering, in the Court sessions, to save Aécio Neves and imprison Lula, revealing her partisan leanings. Even so, she said, without blushing, that "I did not achieve social pacification, at least not in what was my responsibility, but I set an example of serenity in the most difficult moments." Serenity when? When, with her deciding vote, did she allow Lula's imprisonment? It's easy to remain calm when others are going to jail without a crime. Who does she think she's fooling?

It is because of attitudes like these that the Supreme Court has completely lost the trust of the population, who, despite the smokescreen raised by the media, managed to see through its scandalous bias. They imprisoned Lula without him having committed any crime, but, in return, they freed the murderer of missionary Dorothy Stang. In other words, for Brazilian justice, homicide does not have the gravity of renovations carried out in an apartment. And what is even more revolting: the magistrates knew that the apartment did not even belong to Lula. His imprisonment, however, which had the shameful complicity of the TRF-4 and the STF, has no legal basis whatsoever, being nothing more than a mere setup by Judge Sergio Moro to prevent Lula from running for President of the Republic. And the Judiciary, at different levels, was complicit in this setup. Given this, and because they no longer trust the Justice system, part of the population insists on a military intervention. If that happens, goodbye election.