The day Marinho felt the shoe fit in his psychological warfare.

President Dilma Rousseff recently went on television to give a year-end address. Frank as always, the Labor Party leader irritated the billionaire media mogul João Roberto Marinho, heir to O Globo. Dilma asked the Brazilian people an essential question that made them think and reflect: "Has your life improved?"

Obviously, people must have evaluated their lives after the president's pointed question. And certainly, the majority of the working population, students, and housewives must have judged that yes, because it is perceptible even to an uninformed, alienated, or reactionary person that the living conditions of the Brazilian people have improved significantly in the last 11 years since the labor government took power in Brazil.

However, despite the great and important social and economic achievements of Brazilians, the corporate press, with its UDN-style ideology, pretends not to see, and instead equivocates, dissimulates, and manipulates in order to benefit itself and realize its economic and political interests.

To achieve this, it is necessary to engage in politics. Incidentally, bad politics, cowardly and deceitful, with coup-mongering connotations, aimed above all at occupying the place of those who should be forming the partisan opposition: the PSDB, the incompetent party that sold out Brazil, and its appendages whose acronyms are DEM (UDN), the worst party in the world and the architect of all the coups in the 20th century, and PPS, formerly PCB, a sham of its historical past and ideological rags.

The media barons are the heads of the Press Party, who work in the underworld of politics, in a parallel, unofficial way, and oppose labor governments at all times because, simply, they represent the establishment. And if there's one thing that the business world, the oligarchies, and the right-wing parties don't want, it's Brazil's independence, in addition to fighting against the emancipation of the Brazilian people.

I've said this before, but I'll repeat it so people don't forget that the struggle is arduous, that the enemies are powerful and rich, and that social and racial prejudices are etched like tattoos on the souls of the bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie.

Now, O Globo is once again taking the lead in its opposition campaign, which leads nowhere, since elections are decided at the ballot box, where votes reflect what the rulers and their teams have accomplished for the common good.

And wouldn't you know it, after hating the president's phrase questioning whether the life of the Brazilian citizen had improved or not, the billionaire media mogul João Roberto Marinho became furious because the Labor Party president used the expression "psychological warfare."

The president merely demonstrated an understanding of the origins of the terrorism and alarmism, which aim to create insecurity among businesses and markets in general. The root of so much confusion is the private business press, because it is precisely this corporate press that has systematically published, across its various media outlets, that Brazil is finished, defeated, bankrupt, and irremediably without hope or a future if it doesn't get its act together.

In turn, "getting back on track" means adopting the draconian prescriptions drawn up by the IMF, in addition to continuing the (mis)government program of the failed president Fernando Henrique Cardoso — Neoliberal I —, since it is based on the principles of neoliberalism, which advocates for the reduction of the state, the fall in public investments and the belief that the market adjusts itself, as if humanity did not know that when the fox becomes the guardian of the henhouse without the supervision, regulation and rule of the state, the chickens will obviously disappear and, consequently, the family that raises the birds will go hungry.

The Marinho family admires and supports governments that are subservient to foreign interests, colonized, subordinate, and subservient to the United States. This is how former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, that conservative and elitist politician who sold off public assets and yet went to the IMF three times, on his knees and with his hand outstretched, because he bankrupted Brazil three times, acted.

The FHC government, more than any other, delved deeply into a subservient foreign policy, essentially taking off its shoes, and, in turn, decades later, fulfilled the famous phrase of Juracy Magalhães, former governor of Bahia and Brazil's first ambassador to Washington after the 1964 coup, who stated: "What is good for the United States is good for Brazil."

Nothing could be more servile and devoid of any sense of national identity, accurately and precisely reflecting how uncommitted the Brazilian "elites" are and, consequently, how divorced they are from the interests of this powerful South American country and its population, which has been struggling for centuries to develop and, in turn, finally gain access to a better quality of life.

Meanwhile, the unpatriotic right and the middle-class snobs consider this process fair and a natural order, as if it were possible to agree that certain imperialist countries and dominant social groups have the almost divine right to subjugate nations, national states, countries and their rulers, in addition to keeping the workers who enrich all these people in the role of slaves to their profits, and yet, undoubtedly, they take the smallest part of the pie.

So, what happens? João Roberto Marinho harshly questions President Dilma Rousseff, as if giving her a dressing-down, and, completely clueless because he doesn't know his place as a mega-businessman, he becomes so authoritarian that he inverts the facts and realities presented to him. Through a shoddy, tacky, and senseless editorial, he demonstrates immense irritation because Dilma said that psychological warfare, which aims to create social and legal insecurity in the country, is very bad. And Marinho solemnly and undisguisedly took offense.

"If some sectors, for whatever reason, instill distrust, especially unjustified distrust, that is very bad. Psychological warfare can inhibit investments and delay initiatives," stated Dilma Rousseff, in a direct message to the mercantilist and foreign press, which, evidently, took offense, as the base and disrespectful editorial in O Globo clearly shows.

So, I'll give as an example the psychological warfare waged by the billionaire media barons. They (Folha and Globo) said that large industries were rationing energy. Such irresponsibility on the part of the Press Party is a huge lie, which, at a certain point, inhibited new investments. They insisted on a "blackout" that never existed, because the Lula and Dilma governments, unlike the pro-privatization government of FHC—Neoliberal I—invested and continue to invest heavily in energy.

It was precisely the incompetent government of the PSDB party that left the country in a state of rationing for 14 months. However, in a surreal way, the media barons with coup-plotting DNA "forgot" this fact and always feel entitled to manipulate the truth, which is a shame and shows a total lack of discernment and commitment to their readers and viewers.

And the barons didn't stop there. The editorial in O Globo, which makes no sense because it disregards reality and truth, calls the Workers' Party government authoritarian and takes the opportunity to criticize and attack Brazil's neighboring countries, where the people have sovereignly elected left-wing leaders who don't care at all about what billionaire magnates think or don't think.

This editorial is so pernicious and mendacious that it goes so far as to accuse the Workers' Party president of not recognizing her mistakes, only to then offer an economic solution by shamelessly and with a complete lack of accuracy regarding the truth, calling the process of public concessions developed by the Workers' Party government for highways, railways, and airports "privatizations," when the truth is that the state did not relinquish its assets, as did the pro-privatization, unpatriotic, and inferiority-complex-ridden neoliberal government of FHC, perhaps the worst president Brazil has ever had, because he alienated what he did not build and handed over, on a silver platter, extremely rich and profitable companies, such as Vale do Rio Doce and Telebras.

In turn, anyone with a modicum of discernment and common sense knows that the bourgeois press is worthless, and that everything it says, shows, and speaks about should not be taken seriously. After all, the citizen receiving information must sift through what is said and heard, as well as know, for example, that Brazil met its fiscal target in 2013, which allowed for a surplus of R$ 73 billion, as predicted by the Minister of Finance, Guido Mantega.

Mantega was and is a target of bankers and economists linked to banks, who, on several occasions, along with the old national and international press corrupted by their financial interests, demanded his resignation. Magazines and newspapers that are mouthpieces for bankers worked to bring down the competent economist and, consequently, after his fall, economic and financial agents became suspicious and insecure about the direction of the Brazilian economy. Is there anything more sordid than this oligarchy and cartel? I answer: No, there isn't! Period.

The year 2013 was truly a year dedicated to pessimism, through the commercial and private press (private in both senses, okay?) and the economists of the PSDB party and the banks. For those who don't remember, let me remind you: blackouts, soaring exchange rates, fiscal mismanagement, public accounts and, incredibly, the bet on rising inflation, symbolized by the tomato, with the famous TV personality Ana Maria Braga even wearing a ridiculous tomato necklace to oppose the Workers' Party government, which, obviously, didn't work.

However, there was no blackout, the exchange rate didn't skyrocket, there was no loss of control over public finances, and tomatoes, a few weeks later, became cheaper than guava candy in a small-town store. This is truly a dangerous imperialist press. One that doesn't consider the consequences and has no responsibility for the news or the truth. The barons and their henchmen have no commitment to Brazil or the Brazilian people. Period!

After all this, and the failure of the predictions made by the vultures of the press and the financial market, Brazilians had to endure perverse and cynical insinuations regarding the achievement of Dilma Rousseff's Workers' Party government's goals. The defeated right wing, rooting against Brazil, began to consider the goals achieved by the PT government as "creative accounting." Pure manipulation.

The journalists and "experts" from Globo News, Globo, O Globo, CBN, Band, Folha, and Veja began repeating the almost "accusation" in a unanimous and ridiculous way, as it suggests they conspired to always speak the same phrase like parrots: "creative accounting."

The truth is that the intention is an intellectually dishonest way to discredit the Dilma government and, consequently, to imply to people that the government manipulated the numbers and indices to achieve its economic and financial goals. Vulgar and pretentious, those right-wing militants of the Press Party, aren't they?

This happens because their billionaire tycoon bosses refuse to accept the reality that the PT (Workers' Party) governments were far more competent than the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) governments. Furthermore, expecting discernment and common sense from those who want a country for the few or VIPs is asking too much, isn't it?

After the goals were achieved, what was left for the bankers and their economists, and for the billionaire media barons and their journalists? Discontent, hatred, and an immense longing for the times of the military dictatorship and the traitor to the nation known as FHC—the Neoliberal I. December 31, 2013, is the day Marinho felt the cap in his psychological warfare. That's it.