Senator unmasked the Supreme Court.

It's not just Senator Cristovam Buarque who is proud to be a coup supporter – his colleague Ana Amélia, from the PP party in Rio Grande do Sul, is too. In her speech during the last Senate vote on impeachment, she stated that she is "very happy to be a coup supporter, alongside ministers like Carmen Lucia, Antonio Dias Toffoli, and all those who declared that impeachment is constitutional." Besides defining her political position as a coup supporter, she also compromised the Supreme Federal Court by asserting that "the fraud, or the coup, incredibly has the backing of the Supreme Court of our country." The senator, by saying that "the coup incredibly has the backing of the Supreme Court," simultaneously reveals joy and surprise at the Supreme Court's stance. And since there was no statement from any Supreme Court minister contesting her revelation after her speech, not even from President Ricardo Lewandowski, who presided over the session, there is no longer any doubt that the highest court in the country was complicit in the execution of the coup.

In fact, since the beginning of President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment process, the Supreme Court's behavior, albeit disguised, has been clearly favorable to her removal. Besides rejecting all appeals from the defense, the Supreme Court made decisions against her, such as prohibiting Lula from assuming the position of Chief of Staff in her government. Even aware that the President was backed by the Constitution, which guarantees the Head of the Executive branch the exclusive power to appoint aides, Minister Gilmar Mendes alleged that Lula's appointment had the "intention" of obstructing justice. And the Court delayed the plenary's judgment on the merits until the Chamber of Deputies removed her. Minister Carmen Lucia, who will assume the presidency of the Court in September, made her position very clear when answering a question about a statement by Dilma, when she said that "I don't believe she said that impeachment is a coup because it is provided for in the Constitution." Well, everyone knows, including the minister and all scholars of the Constitution, that if there is no crime, then impeachment is indeed a coup.

It is clear that all masks have fallen. Besides the Supreme Court and the senators, regarding Dilma's impeachment, the masks of, among others, the prosecutors and police of Operation Lava Jato have also fallen, concerning the hunt for Lula, especially after he denounced the human rights violations to the UN. According to the "Expresso" column in "Época" magazine, everything is ready for the former president to be indicted by the Federal Police and charged by the Lava Jato prosecutors. The magazine stated that "investigators are working diligently to catch Lula," adding that the delegates and prosecutors say they have "robust evidence" that Lula was aware of the scheme to divert funds from Petrobras. Furthermore, the magazine claims that "investigators are irritated by Lula's repeated attempts to intimidate them, but there is no plan, for now, to request his arrest." Does anyone still doubt the "spirit" of the Lava Jato team?

In fact, they are no longer concerned with hiding or at least disguising the true objective of Operation Lava Jato. While interim president Michel Temer confesses that he asked Odebrecht for money during a dinner at the Jaburu Palace itself, and that he received R$ 11 million, Lula's hunters are striving to find something that could incriminate him. To this day, no one has accused him of receiving a single cent in bribes, but they now say they have "robust evidence" that the former working-class president was aware of the Petrobras scheme. And they insist on the ridiculous story of the Guarujá triplex and the Atibaia ranch. In other words, Temer rubs it in the faces of the zealous investigators that he did indeed receive millions from Odebrecht, but they prefer to chase after Lula, against whom there are no accusations. Only a blind person, an imbecile, or a coup plotter fails to see that what they really want is not exactly to combat corruption, but, fulfilling the role assigned to them by those who wish to seize power without going through the ballot box, to prevent the Workers' Party leader from returning to the Planalto Palace through popular vote.

Minister José Serra was also accused of receiving R$ 23 million from Odebrecht, as was the Chief of Staff, Eliseu Padilha, of receiving R$ 4 million – amounts that could buy several triplexes and country houses – but they are not being investigated – and have even disappeared from the news – because there is no interest in investigating them. It appears that after selecting victims, among members of the Workers' Party and businessmen, to serve as scapegoats, those responsible for combating corruption have forgotten about members of the PSDB, PMDB, and all those who conspired against President Dilma Rousseff, including those currently in power. Deputy Eduardo Cunha, for example, remains unscathed, despite the mountain of accusations against him, while Lava Jato interrupts the investigation against his wife because – believe it or not! – they don't know where she lives. Judge Sérgio Moro, in a ruling, said that "there are difficulties in personally serving the summons to the accused Claudia Cordeiro Cruz" because he doesn't know her address. That's a joke. The Federal Police can find out that the paddle boats at the Atibaia property have the names of Lula's grandchildren on them, but they can't find the accused's address. Here's a hint: just go to the address of her husband, Congressman Eduardo Cunha.

All this farce, however, it seems, will begin to unravel with the Senate's impeachment trial of President Dilma, should she indeed be removed and Temer remain in power, because their objective will have been almost achieved, lacking only the banishment of Lula from public life for the coup plotters' power project to be crowned. Hopefully, however, they won't get carried away and decide to imprison Lula as well, even with a fabricated justification, because from then on it will be difficult to predict the consequences for the country's future. Unless they want to wait and see, lighting the fuse of the powder keg they have turned Brazil into.