Globo, a predator of Brazil, wants to bankrupt and privatize Petrobras.

Why do Globo Organizations want to see Petrobras go bankrupt? Easy answer: because the Brazilian political process has always involved Petrobras, even before it was created by the statesman president, Getúlio Vargas, in 1953. The truth is that Petrobras, besides being the state-owned company that symbolizes the struggle for Brazil's independence, also represents the competence of Brazilian workers, administrators, technicians, engineers, scientists, and researchers who, in 62 years, transformed Petrobras into one of the largest oil companies in the world, self-sufficient in oil and possessing technologies and knowledge about deep-water oil prospecting that no other country has.

The Globo Organizations(?) know this, but they don't care about the truth and attack Petrobras without any scruples, because the intention is to cause confusion to entire segments of society, because they purposefully manipulate the news about corruption in the state-owned company, giving a false and perverse connotation about the incompetence of the national state to manage such a large company, which is confused with Brazilian identity itself and the capacity for overcoming adversity of the Brazilian people when it comes to survival.

The Globo Organizations are frivolous and sneaky because their journalistic reports are selective and do not reflect the truth. Otherwise, such a private company, the "owner" of a gigantic communication monopoly, could not keep Petrobras corruption cases on the air for so long, as if they were chapters of the worst kind of soap operas, in which civil servants hired in the 1970s and 1980s are the protagonists, playing the "roles" of criminals, thieves of public money, who are being duly investigated by the Federal Police, denounced by the Public Prosecutor's Office, and punished by the Judiciary.

All this during the PT government, led by President Dilma Rousseff, a leader who demonstrates enormous courage and who warned during her presidential campaign, without leaving any doubt, that "no stone will be left unturned" in the fight against corruption. And so it was done. And so it continues to be done. However, the more people are arrested and scams and thefts uncovered by those who should be safeguarding public assets, the more Globo Organizations and their counterparts attack the Workers' Party government, as if the public authorities were not fulfilling their obligations and responsibilities, which boil down to investigating the facts and forwarding them to the courts.

The truth behind the insidious and submissive campaign against Petrobras is certainly not Globo's zeal for the powerful state-owned company. Not at all. The newspaper O Globo, owned by Irineu and Roberto Marinho, furiously and systematically fought against the creation of Petrobras by the labor leader Getúlio Vargas, leader of the 1930 Revolution, whom the Marinho family has always hated. This media oligarchy sympathizes greatly with the leaders of the coup plotters of 1932, 1945, 1954, and 1964.

No one doubts this. Currently, the heirs of the Lacerdist UDN are allied with the PSDB of the tucanos and the DEM — the worst party in the world, where a right-wing extremist thrives, dreaming of becoming president of the Republic, whose name is Ronaldo Caiado (DEM), a powerful rancher from Goiás, former leader of the UDR, who behaves, in the Chamber of Deputies and now in the Senate, like a thug driven by hatred, possessing an aggressive, harsh, and violent vocabulary against the PT, former president Lula, President Dilma Rousseff, and the left in general. Caiado is the Bolsonaro of agribusiness. The right-winger voted against the PEC on Slave Labor, partly because the Caiado family is on the Ministry of Labor's "dirty list" for subjecting workers to undignified conditions, that is, conditions degrading to human beings.

However, the truth is that the right wing is currently managing to corner the Workers' Party government. The opposition movement of conservative parties, led by the PSDB, and the repercussions of corruption cases according to the perspective, will, and decisions of professionals working for billionaire media moguls are causing the Dilma government and the Workers' Party to deteriorate their image and undermine their ability to govern the country.

Despite the enormous economic growth and social development seen during the Workers' Party's (PT) administration, the prevailing sentiment in the mainstream press and reactionary sectors of Brazilian society is to ignore the progress that has taken place in Brazil, and even less to give voice to those who are being constantly attacked, in this case the Workers' Party and its leaders, as they are now trying to do with former minister José Dirceu, who, even while serving his sentence, they are attempting to implicate in Operation Lava Jato.

Keeping emblematic and leftist figures of the Republic on the defensive and tarnishing their images in the public eye is the "formula" intensely repeated by the private business press, which historically proceeded in the same way with Getúlio Vargas, João Goulart, and Leonel Brizola, all considered politicians of the labor camp, who were mercilessly called thieves, corrupt, and wrongdoers by this same corporate press, predatory of public assets and enemy of the interests of Brazil and its people, who have been fighting for centuries to emancipate themselves. However, these three historical figures of the political world did not steal from the people, as was later proven, just as President Lula did not steal and, evidently, President Dilma Rousseff does not and will not steal.

Discrediting and smearing the "enemies" of businessmen, right-wing parties, and the foreign press—which evades taxes and foments coups—is the keynote or modus operandi of right-wingers, who know no other way to combat those who do not follow their political agendas and do not align with their economic purposes and interests. In turn, the Labor government finds itself in a state of endless lethargy and is not reacting adequately to dissuade the right-wing media and party apparatus from attempting a coup against republican institutions and the democratic rule of law.

There is no truce in this struggle, as antagonistic ideological and political camps, whose contradictions do not confront each other in the realm of ideas, but are realized, above all, in a circle of accusations and denunciations, many of them, appealingly, empty because they lack police and judicial verification, as has been well demonstrated over time by numerous "denunciations" echoed by the commercial and private press, which insists on practicing gutter journalism, with only declarative content, effectively of a political-partisan nature and, in effect, unconcerned with hearing all sides of a story or event. The basics, the corporate and family-owned press purposefully fails to do, because they are hastily politicized and ideologized.

For their part, the habitual executioners and traitors of the Fatherland forget that lies, even when repeated tirelessly by media outlets belonging to a handful of billionaire families compromised with the international plutocracy, have short legs and the truth always comes to light, despite attempts to drown it out, as in the case of Petrobras.

The labor, democratic, and popular governments of Lula and Dilma carried out more than two thousand police operations and never retaliated against the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Supreme Court when they investigated and punished people linked to the government. Furthermore, it is more than proven that the Attorneys General of the Republic and the Supreme Court justices were chosen from lists of three candidates, a fact that I consider a serious mistake, including a strategic error on the part of these two presidents, who should, in fact, choose the judges and prosecutors as permitted by the Constitution.

The conservative president of the PSDB party, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, would never have had so much respect and consideration for democracy, as he always chose "his" appointees and protected himself against their misdeeds and actions, such as buying votes for reelection, according to testimonies from parliamentarians and reports from journalists, as well as the alienation and dismantling of public assets, as irrefutably demonstrated by the denunciations in the books "A Privataria Tucana" and "O Príncipe da Privataria," in addition to countless scandals that occurred during the eight years of FHC's misrule—the Neoliberal I—the one who went to the IMF three times, on his knees, humiliated, with his hand outstretched hat, because he bankrupted Brazil three times.

To this day, no member of the PSDB party has been imprisoned. On the contrary, crimes like the "Mensalão Tucano" scandal are nearing the statute of limitations, many of those involved became unaccountable due to their age, and this year marks ten years of impunity for the scandal. There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of accusations and cases of corruption involving PSDB members throughout the 26 years since the party's founding. The party governed Brazil for eight years, has controlled São Paulo for 20 years, and also powerful states like Minas Gerais, currently governed by Fernando Pimentel of the PT (Workers' Party), but which was in the hands of Aécio Neves and his group for over 10 years. The state of Paraná, a conservative state, has been controlled by the PSDB for almost 10 years, and its governor, Beto Richa, is facing an unprecedented credibility crisis because his government is accused of corruption by Paraná society, in addition to recurring public sector strikes.

Obviously, none of these episodes were properly reported by the mainstream and hegemonic press, according to their importance, simply because they are "friendly" to the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party). This private media system exists to protect its allies, cronies, and partners. Period. There is no doubt about this reality. How is it possible that a scandal, bigger than that of Petrobras, such as the criminal tax evaders with accounts at HSBC in Switzerland, is not shown by the private business press as it should be? After all, it is an issue that terribly harms Brazilian society, and therefore it is in their interest to know who is stealing from the public treasury and, consequently, from education, health, security, housing, infrastructure, and jobs, because a people without jobs is a people doomed to misery, poverty, hunger, and violence.

Having said all that, one comes to the conclusion that the HSBC case, like many others, such as the Mensalão Tucano, Banestado, Satiagraha, Castelo de Areia, as well as Chacal, Sundow/BoiBarrica, Dilúvio, Poseidon and Diamante, may end in nothing, because the other Federal Police operations mentioned were all annulled by the courts. However, Metrosão and Trensalão are still being investigated, despite a certain leniency and slowness on the part of the Justice system and the Public Prosecutor's Office, who would never act this way if the PT were involved or, it's not even necessary to go that far, merely accused, even without evidence. This is what happens in Brazil today and yesterday, with the addition of a "P," for PT supporter, because the other "Ps" are for whore, poor, and black.

As always happens in Brazil, we have a justice system that is anything but reliable. The people feel and say so. Just interview them on the streets and ask them if the justice system in this country is republican or only defends the interests of the rich and powerful, not forgetting the white people, because it is a judiciary composed, for the most part, of bourgeois and petit-bourgeois judges, politically conservative, divorced from popular interests and dedicated to serving the status quo, without a doubt.

It's no coincidence that popular and left-wing governments and leaders live as if they're in the spotlight. It's not easy to confront a right-wing media machine that has become a political party without limits or ethics, attacking those it considers enemies to be defeated, by any means necessary, even through coups or the impeachment of a president elected by more than 54 million votes who has not committed any crimes of responsibility or wrongdoing and who has demonstrated that she does not waver in her refusal to tolerate corruption, so much so that she combats it fiercely, a routine that began with the more than a thousand Federal Police operations carried out during Lula's government. These are realities that never occurred during the governments of the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party).

The truth is simple: Globo, a predator of Brazil, wants to see Petrobras bankrupt. They have always acted this way, since the time of Getúlio Vargas. It's nothing new. They are merely reiterating their predatory tendencies, preying on Brazil, a generous country where they make a lot of money, to the point of becoming billionaires. Globo wants to see the national state on its knees and, along with it, the people. They live off public money, built their empire during the military dictatorship, sabotage presidents elected by the sovereign will of the people, and bet on the worse things get, the better.

If it weren't for Globo and the companies in that group, Brazil would already be in a much more advanced state of social and economic development. With Globo, social peace is impossible because the billionaire media magnates and their spokespeople are war-mongers. The real Brazil, the deep Brazil, is thousands of miles away from their truths and realities for these people. They are ignorant of the Brazilian people, their customs, cultures, pains, dreams, and desires. They are ignorant of Brazilian history. They are so perverse and colonized that, day after day, they believe the country is an extension of their backyards, when the truth is that it is not, and never has been, especially since when this powerful country experiences democratic periods, like now, these arrogant, authoritarian media moguls, lamentably subservient to foreign interests, lose the elections, as they lost to Getúlio, Jango, JK, Lula, and Dilma.

This is a violent, petty, colonized, and insecure business class. A mongrel mentality in all its essence and fullness. Fathers and mothers, parents of playboys, who venture into politics but fail to convince the people to vote for them, with their well-tailored suits, slicked-back hair, expensive perfumes, and presumptuously pompous language, in addition to almanac-style "knowledge," accompanied by the cunning, shrewdness, and dissimulation worthy of scoundrels, learned in their luxury condominiums or in Miami or New York. In short: crooks and scoundrels with a "designer label."

Globo is against Brazil and its people. One of the points on its nefarious agenda is to privatize Petrobras, along with the pre-salt oil reserves. With "luck," this will increase unemployment and make workers feel insecure about the country's economy. The purposes of this American organization (?) of alien character are not to be trifled with. The "Brazil is a Mess!" editorial on Rede Globo is prolific in lowering the self-esteem of Brazilians to a level lower than a snake's belly. And this is psychologically dangerous.

Therefore, and the Dilma government either fails to understand or turns a deaf ear, it is imperative to have strong, courageous, agile, and replicable communication that promptly counters the attacks that disqualify and attempt to criminalize the PT government. "He who does not communicate, gets into trouble"—as Chacrinha used to say. Globo represents the private sector, which has the audacity to want to impose its agenda and govern in place of the President of the Republic. Sleep with that noise. That's it.