A year later, the coup fails.

A year after the coup that deposed elected President Dilma Rousseff, it is safe to say that the Brazilian people were deceived, that the coup failed. The country remains embroiled in the greatest political and economic crisis in its history, mired in corruption scandals that affect all levels of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. And the illegitimate government is beginning to hand over national assets.

It was a year without Dilma. But it was a year of attacks on labor rights, social security, the environment, and even national sovereignty. A year without Dilma, without democracy, without jobs. Today, one year after the event, there is no celebration. No political act, no pronouncements. Nothing to celebrate.

Ungoverned and without prospects, the country is witnessing a continuous coup. A sequence of crises, in a blame game that causes so much harm to the nation. The dismantling of the State, privatization, and the handing over of our wealth to international capital are the goals that guide the National Congress, the same Congress that impeached President Dilma Rousseff and saved the illegitimate Michel Temer, transforming Parliament into a large marketplace for deals.

This week, we had the pleasure of hearing from international jurist Geoffrey Robertson in the Federal Senate. He came to Brazil to discuss justice and human rights, and he stated that "It is clear that Judge Moro is being biased." In the Senate's Human Rights Commission, before parliamentarians and jurists, he affirmed that Judge Sérgio Moro, of Lava Jato, has been prejudging cases, and that this disqualifies him from judging them.

Brazil remains embroiled in the greatest political and economic crisis in its history, immersed in a "sea of ​​mud and corruption" involving the Executive Branch, the illegitimate president who has been denounced, the National Congress, and even the Judiciary, which this week also saw Judge Sérgio Moro himself denounced. The truth is that the jurist is right: There is a judicialization of politics, or worse, a politicization of the judiciary. All to prevent Lula from governing the country again. To prevent the PT from returning to power.

A year ago, on that fateful August 31st, the trial was a farce. There was indeed a "grand national agreement" that had been announced, recorded, denounced, and shelved. It was indeed a coup to depose the elected president – ​​re-elected with 54 million votes. All to hand Brazil over to international financial capital.

In Parliament, in the Judiciary, in the backrooms of the Jaburu Palace, a plot was hatching to depose the president and create the climate to do, without any votes, what they would never propose in an election: take away the people's rights, sell our riches, and hand over our Amazon. A year later, Brazil came to a standstill. Unemployment, the high cost of living, and despair took over society.

This is the situation, one year after the coup: The Executive branch does not exist; the National Congress does not legislate; the Judiciary does not act. Only one judge, Judge Moro, with a single goal: To convict and imprison former President Lula. To prevent him from running in the 2018 elections and returning to the Presidency of the Republic. All forces concentrated on a single task: LULA.

But Brazil will react. Hope is beginning to sprout with the realization of Lula's Caravan across Brazil, which the former president is undertaking through the northeastern states, and which has been very successful. Wherever the caravan goes, it gathers crowds of northeastern Brazilians in this civic march for the return of democracy. Brazil has a way out, and we – who are Brazilians – never give up.