Open letter to the Marisa Letícia encampment

I want to begin this letter with the words of the Argentinian writer Arturo Jauretche: "They ignore that the multitude does not hate, it hates minorities, because gaining rights brings joy, while losing privileges provokes resentment."

I know that the media has corrupted the minds of a large portion of Brazilians who lack political education. Those who follow Globo's pronouncements like a faction.

But I lived through the prosperity of Lula's presidency, and no one can change what I witnessed, what I saw with my own eyes, what I touched with my own hands.

I am not politically illiterate. That's why I don't join (like other self-proclaimed bourgeois) those who hate what they barely understand, what they don't know. I don't join the group of traitors just because a group of loan sharks wants to suck the blood of Brazil.

We live in times of epic grandeur and mediocre misery in Latin America. Our fragile species emerged in Brazil to make headlines around the world, to showcase the best and worst of our nature.

We are going through dark and unhappy times, marked by great institutional decay and moral pretense.

The great betrayals occurred in Congress for foreign money, the coup with the smell of oil took place in the heart of Brazil.

We suffered a coup d'état and the judicial system was degraded, to be recycled and reused as a mere tool of political persecution.

When all institutions are corrupt, when the homeland is handed over to foreign speculators, hope finds refuge in altruistic people like you.

That is why you are our greatest hope, not only for Brazil, but for all good people who live on earth.

While we fight, cowardly and bloodthirsty vultures plot in the sky, hoping to see Lula die politically. His watch over the camp has historical significance, his mission is exemplary, it is the magnitude of epic actions.

You are at the epicenter of history. Your children will say with emotion and pride that their parents resisted in a camp after the coup in their homeland. Your grandchildren will remember you fondly for this historic resistance...

The territory that you enrich with your presence will, in the future, be a chosen place to build monuments commemorating those sad times.

Tourists will want to take photos there, and all free men in the world will want to take a souvenir from there.

This humble Argentinian sends you a warm hug from Salvador, Bahia. I hope life grants me a moment of victory with you, for you already hold a great place in world history.