Memories of a coup against Dilma Rousseff

The novelty is not the finding that it was a bloodless, parliamentary coup that deposed Dilma Rousseff in 2016, but rather, for the first time, a Supreme Court justice has recognized that the former president did not commit any impeachable offense.

The clamor for the Supreme Court to annul the sentence will have symbolic value, which is necessary, but nothing will alter the political abyss and social chaos into which we have been thrown since then. It would be important for the biographies of the magistrates, even more so than for Dilma, who knew very well what was happening and did not submit to the pressures of Eduardo Cunha and the gang he led. She did not tarnish her history!

Retrieving some of my writings from that time, I attempted to send a series of letters to major newspapers, most of which, obviously, were not published. It's always good to revisit some of my comments to reinforce the need to be on the right side of history.

The maneuver in the Senate to make the action less shameful, while maintaining Dilma's political rights, only reaffirmed the farce. A farce that repeated itself as tragedy. The "impeachment" was the usurpation of power, supported by the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party), to impose a project rejected at the polls in 2014. The Workers' Party erred in some choices and decisions, but Dilma Rousseff was the scapegoat to give an aura of legitimacy to the hatred installed and instilled in the PT since then, the motto of the nefarious 2018 campaign.

Interim coup leader Temer was elected alongside Dilma, according to defenders of the "legal process," but he betrayed the entire winning political platform and implemented the condemned anti-labor and anti-social policies.

The photograph illustrating the text is the only one I have with her, taken at the 2011 Young Scientist Award ceremony – I mentored one of the winners – when the Science Without Borders program was also announced.