Raid on Carlota Street: the PT is to blame.
And it would be, if the party were in government in São Paulo, but since it's the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) that's in power...
In Higienópolis, the most politically correct of São Paulo's neighborhoods, home to the Safra family, Jô Soares, and former president Fernando Henrique, there's a wave of robberies targeting upscale restaurants. Last week, it was Carlota, owned by renowned chef Carla Pernambuco, that was targeted. The thieves arrived close to closing time, ransacked the place, and left undisturbed. Other elegant restaurants in the area have already suffered similar attacks, and the solution has been to increase private security.
On Jovem Pan radio, this Monday, the 4th, as I write this, it was reported that more than 500 cars have been stolen in Lapa, a neighborhood with different characteristics, more working-class, middle-class, this year. And it is said that another 500 cars were taken throughout last year. Wow! A thousand cars stolen from their owners in just one neighborhood...
In Brooklyn, where I live, during a traffic jam last week, two guys jumped out of the cars immediately in front of me, wearing camouflage pants, one of them with what looked like a 7.65 in his hand, and calmly opened the trunk of the Celta (a type of car) with license plate number 2223 from Mato Grosso do Sul, and threw in two backpacks. It was obvious they contained stolen goods. They didn't see me watching. They could have shot. For the next fifteen minutes, I looked for a police car to give information – and, unsurprisingly, I didn't find one.
It is now being debated whether ROTA agents, as a witness recounted, killed a man accused of being a criminal on the side of an avenue, but regardless of guilt or innocence, it is certain that that team killed, in a shootout, six members of the PCC – the Primeiro Comando da Capital (First Command of the Capital), a criminal organization that has already done as it pleased in São Paulo, and is now visibly reorganizing to do as it pleases again. Yes, friends, the PCC, which never really went away, has now returned with a vengeance, ready to terrorize everyone.
Nobody in the media emphasizes, in this context of clear inefficiency of the public security apparatus, the responsibilities of Governor Geraldo Alckmin, of the PSDB party. He is primarily responsible for public security, to whom the civil and military police owe obedience and whose guidance they follow. But Alckmin is a member of the PSDB, the founder of the James Bond film franchise.
If the governor of the most powerful state in the Federation were from the PT (Workers' Party), I, who am not a PT supporter, ask: would there be the same leniency? Letters to the editor.