Lava Jato tried to hide evidence against Serra, but failed.

For obvious reasons, Operation Lava Jato has been seen by many people not suspected of being "PT supporters" as a political coup aimed solely and exclusively at removing the PT from power. After all, the arrests without trial aimed at extracting "confessions" have focused exclusively on people linked to the party or to the Lula and Dilma governments.

The core of Lava Jato is – or should be – the relationship between governments at all levels and politicians and parties of all tendencies with large economic groups, but it had been focused exclusively on the relationship between construction companies and Petrobras, which limited the investigations and accusations to members of the Workers' Party (PT) and people or groups linked to the PT and the Lula and Dilma governments.

However, anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty recognizes that one has to be very cunning to claim that only the PT or PT governments could have maintained improper relationships with construction companies and other economic groups. And that the electoral donations from these companies to the PT are dirty, while donations to the PSDB or any other party are clean.

In the 2014 elections, Dilma and Aécio's campaigns each cost around 500 million reais. The same large companies donated fortunes to both campaigns. These companies have interests in the federal government, but also in state and municipal governments. Now, could it be that they only maintained improper relationships with the federal government?

It is obvious that, even admitting that Dilma or the heads of the PSDB state governments (among others) did not know that members of these governments were making shady deals with construction companies (for example), nobody believes that corruption only appeared in the federal government or in the companies it controls after the PT came to power.

However, incredibly, you'll read in the comments of this post – or any previous post – people saying that corruption only exists in the PT (Workers' Party).

Over the last two years or so, Lava Jato has reinforced this crazy premise by focusing exclusively on the relationships of a company like Odebrecht, for example, with the federal government and with the PT or groups linked to the PT.

In fact, the PMDB is only involved in Lava Jato because of the alliance it maintained with the PT over the last decade or so. The PSDB, for example, whose relations with Odebrecht are much older and deeper than those of the PT, and which in states like São Paulo and Minas Gerais made extremely "strange" deals with ALL the construction companies under investigation, had been staying out of any trouble caused by Lava Jato.

And the stance of the great symbol of the operation, federal judge Sergio Moro, does little to dispel suspicions of a political-partisan nature surrounding Lava Jato. Last Monday (8), for example, Moro went to the extreme ofto have lunch In public, at a restaurant, with a group of artists and anti-PT movements that preach the theory that corruption only exists within the PT.

However, while the operation led by Sergio Moro attempted to exonerate the PSDB party, the pressure on heir Marcelo Odebrecht, imprisoned for over a year, resulted in more than the anti-PT judge could have anticipated.

Senator José Serra's connections to Lava Jato were laid bare in the report released in July of last year regarding messages captured on the cell phone of the then-president of Odebrecht, Marcelo Odebrecht.

The Federal Police report identified the initials of Vice President Michel Temer and São Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin, but placed a black bar over the initials JS. Since Serra's name appeared in the initial forensic report, it can be concluded that the Lava Jato investigations had attempted to shield the senator from the PSDB party.

The Lava Jato task force attributed the redactions to protecting the names of politicians with parliamentary immunity, but did not explain why Geraldo Alckmin's name appeared and José Serra's did not.

However, the scandal caused by the discovery in 2015 that Serra was involved with Marcelo Odebrecht became uncontrollable. At a snail's pace, republican sectors of the Federal Police and the Public Prosecutor's Office even threatened to speak out if Lava Jato suppressed the evidence and proof against members of the PSDB and PMDB parties linked to the coup against Dilma.

In recent days, versions have emerged suggesting that Folha de São Paulo's report that Serra will face charges from Odebrecht was a maneuver intended to create an appearance of impartiality for Lava Jato on the eve of the Senate vote on Dilma's impeachment.

Several readers have posted comments on this blog addressing this theory. However, it doesn't make sense.

First, because, with the exception of Folha, the rest of the media suppressed the news that Odebrecht executives – and, it is speculated, Marcelo himself – accuse Serra of receiving 34 million reais in bribes (in updated values). Jornal Nacional and the rest of the media hid the news. Only Folha gave it prominence.

So, what kind of plan is this to give Lava Jato an appearance of impartiality if the media, which should be making this plan work, concealed the accusation? It's fine that Folha gave it prominence, but without it appearing on Jornal Nacional, this accusation doesn't spread and its supposed objective doesn't materialize.

Be that as it may, the fact is that it took more than a year for the investigations into the notes on Marcelo Odebrecht's cell phone to get anywhere. However, they are getting there. And they don't only affect José Serra. Michel Temer himself is exposed. Geraldo Alckmin, Aécio Neves, in short, all those shameless people who went so far as to accuse members of the Workers' Party of corruption.

To prevent all this from stopping, however, it's necessary to widely publicize that the pseudo-moralistic PSDB and PMDB members have been caught red-handed in corruption. Their apparent involvement in corruption is what's bringing them down in the polls. The people are already realizing how shameless they are.