Guedes is hiding the Social Security data to deceive the people.

If you're afraid to reveal information, it's because you're certain that the information will contradict you. Following this line of reasoning, Paulo Guedes' Ministry of Economy decided to hide documents related to the pension reform project, thus confessing that it will harm tens of millions of Brazilians. For us, this is nothing new. The project is bad, and its ultimate goal is to destroy public pensions, the pensions of the poor, to favor the pensions of the rich, called capitalization.

For those who don't want to delve into the technical details of the proposed reform, Guedes's attitude alone is enough to conclude that it's an exploitation of the people. If the powerful Paulo Guedes had even a minimum of honesty in defending his project, he would try to present technical justifications that could be checked by parliamentarians and analysts outside the government. However, he is hiding the evidence of his infamy. He has made the project's foundations disappear because he himself knows that, if they are seen by the people, they will generate outrage.

Hidden evidence is evidence of what one doesn't want revealed. Otherwise, it will fuel an unwanted reaction from third parties. Normally, when a project is developed, a series of technical notes and preliminary documents are gathered to justify it. The evidence now is that, among these project documents that Guedes and Bolsonaro want to impose on society, there is much that contradicts their intentions, presented by the very technicians of the Ministry of Economy, and which they do not want to reveal.

All of this indicates that the Guedes project, instead of being built from the bottom up, was built from the top down. The minister wanted a specific reform and imposed on his subordinates the task of justifying it. Those without character, and there are plenty of them everywhere, must have followed orders. The more honest and conscientious must have presented justified opposing arguments. It is to censure these latter individuals that the Ministry must have classified the documents as secret.

Furthermore, we are facing a procedural absurdity. For any bill to proceed in Congress, a detailed study of its economic and budgetary impacts is required. This is not happening with the pension reform. In the eagerness to force the bill down Congress's throat as quickly as possible, this basic rule was not followed. What is being voted on is a sham of a bill. It's being rushed so that parliamentarians not subservient to the government don't have time to expose all its flaws and malicious intent.

If he weren't so keen on approving the capitalization project, enjoying the potential advantages of a proposal so pleasing to the banking system, Rodrigo Maria would have had to halt the process until its justifications were exposed. Not at all. Therefore, parliamentarians should be vigilant: as in classic stories of the theft of important documents, it's possible that in this case too, papers and evidence are being replaced to accommodate those demanded by the minister to support his project. This doesn't yet constitute obstruction of justice. It's obstruction of the truth.