Letter to the dubious, deceitful Senator Cristovam Buarque

Mr. Cristovam

I wrote you a letter. here urging him to vote against the coup and in favor of democracy. 

I argued that you were one of the most intellectually prepared senators. I defended your right to doubt, especially since cultured people, sensitive to scientific reasoning, do not live by the certainties that fuel dogmas and dogmatists, those arrogant daily assassins of truth and justice.

I appealed to you to base your decision on the sacred principles of democracy and never on those that underpin the coup and the perverse actions of the coup plotters, who tend to plunge our country into the abyss of war and the plundering of our riches, condemning us to the hell of poverty, misery, and ignorance.

Not only did I express my opinion to you, but the journalist Paulo Nogueira also wrote you an open letter asking how you sleep, since you have sided with the traitors and scoundrels of the Republic, turning our country into a banana republic perfectly suited to the powerful business interests of Yankee corporations.

After you voted in favor of the impeachment proceedings in the Senate, many of your voters staged a symbolic act of "unvoting" because they consider you a coup plotter, now with no connection whatsoever to the senator they helped elect.

Impressively, you suddenly find yourself at the center of attention regarding the coup, which the elite and fascism call the impeachment of President Dilma.

One of the hallmarks of your position is the dance you perform, spinning through a world of doubt.

Was it a cynical dance by someone who was drawing attention to themselves for purely electoral gain, driven by their obsession with becoming a presidential candidate?

Now you've come up with an unparalleled excuse, demonstrating the enormous audacity of someone who has run out of excuses. Claiming that you decided to vote for impeachment because the great writer Fernando Morais returned the title of citizen of Brasília, granted by you when you were governor of the Federal District, is hypocrisy on par with the worst and most shameless traditional politicians in this dirty world of corruption. No more, no less, Senator.

I feel sorry for his end in the dustbin of history as a companion of Michel Temer, José Serra, Aécio Neves, Eliseu Padilha and other buffoons of this Republic, which they want to transform into a den of thieves.

I'm sorry because, as I wrote in my previous letter, I came to think that you were genuinely shaken by doubts. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, which is not guided by frozen concepts of eternal and petrified truths.

But no, Senator, you are a player, a terrible one at that, whose interests are centered on your personal and electoral pursuits. You believe that your party, the PPS, is right in conceiving the confusion that the people are siding with those who vote in favor of the coup. You allow yourself to be influenced by this lamentable group, known for betraying the principles denied and poorly trampled by its owner, Deputy Roberto Freire, who made it a sub-party of the PSDB and one of the arms of the coup-plotting right wing.

This assessment further tarnishes you, Senator Cristovam. You are behaving like an opportunist seeking votes, and no longer like an activist, a reference point for what is right and just for the paths and travelers of Brazil.

It's sad because you deny all the studies you've done and even your past as governor of Brasília, with a program focused on social inclusion and economic justice.

In other words, you trample on ethics and disgrace the truth.

Some say that lately you define your political conduct in parliament by the petty feelings of resentment and revenge.

These were the reasons that led him to leave the PT (Workers' Party), hurt because former President Lula had fired him by phone from the Ministry of Education at the time he was traveling to Portugal.

 Senator, those who engage in politics fueled by resentment, bitterness, and vengeance teeter on the moral edge and lose their way due to a lack of judgment and failure to set an example for the people. Could this be your case?

Looking at it from this perspective, one gets the impression that you are pursuing a decadent path towards becoming the dwelling place of history's refuse. Since leaving the PT, a party with many problems and mistakes, you have marked your path with opportunism by wanting to run for president of the Republic under the PDT banner. Later, you left that party and joined the PPS with the same objective.

You promote the idea that party politics and politics as an art of the public good are the least of your concerns. Constructive debate on collective projects doesn't inspire you. On the contrary, you want to be the all-powerful program that any party must adopt. And your program is yourself and your one-note plan.

So your neutrality, the basis of your doubts, was completely false. You never had any doubts. Your position was never neutral. You have a side, Senator Buarque.

Your side is that of the coup and the death of democracy. You follow the march of the corrupt colonels, gorged on bribes and under investigation by the police. Your boss is the clandestine interim and coup plotter Michel Temer, ultimately under the command of the corrupt Eduardo Cunha.

With your decision to vote for impeachment, you are bidding a final farewell to the people and to democracy, in a grand, suicidal, and hypocritical gesture.

Your path will lead you alongside Temer, Cunha, and all the other coup plotters of 1954, those who forced Getúlio's suicide, those who overthrew Jango in 1964, and now those who sell out Brazil. At the bottom of the abyss, you will be forgotten, and your discourse on education will accompany you in the shadows of oblivion.

• Critical yet fraternal embraces in the struggle for social justice and peace.
• Dom Orvandil, OSF: bishop, rebel, and republican, president of Ibrapaz, bishop of the Central Brazil Diocese and university professor, working hard without exploiting anyone.

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