Janio de Freitas: never has there been so much hypocrisy in Brazil as in 2016.
"The 441 pages of Senator Antonio Anastasia's report wouldn't need more than one, with a single word, to expose his political conclusion: guilty. The political nature of the report explains the futility, for the Aécio-supporting senator and his massive document, of the technical expert reports and legal opinions (including those from the Public Prosecutor's Office) that refute the accusations used for the impeachment," says columnist Janio de Freitas, a veteran of the Brazilian press; approval of the report, scheduled for this Thursday, will open the way for a plenary vote and for Congress to write one of the most shameful chapters in the country's history, burying democracy.
247 - No artigo Dilma's removal from office is hypocrisy like nothing Brazil has ever seen before.In this article, journalist Janio de Freitas, a veteran of the Brazilian press, reflects on how the 2016 coup will be remembered in history.
"Those who refuse to see a partisan coup in the construction of Dilma Rousseff's impeachment can still admit, so as not to be subjected to intellectually or politically pejorative labels, that the removal of the president is being carried out in a state of hypocrisy unlike anything ever seen here before," he says.The 64 coup was said to be 'in defense of democracy,' that's true. But the cynicism of that claim couldn't withstand the evidence of tanks in the streets, the persecutions and arrests.
Today, says Janio, the coup carried out by civilians and parliament is different."The hypocrisy on the civilian side can no longer be concealed; it has become visible and undeniable."
As interim president Michel Temer himself stated that the trial is political, even though Brazil is not a parliamentary country, Janio affirms that "t"The entire impeachment process is, therefore, a farce."
And one of the biggest representatives of the farce is Senator Antonio Anastasia (PSDB-MG), tasked with producing the coup report.The 441 pages of Senator Antonio Anastasia's report would need no more than one, with a single word, to expose his political conclusion: guilty. The political nature of the report explains the uselessness, for the Aécio-supporting senator and his massive document, of the technical expert reports and legal opinions (including those from the Public Prosecutor's Office) that refute the accusations used for the impeachment," he says.From the first act to Anastasia's conclusion, and right up to the end, the political impeachment process is a grand charade. A political hypocrisy of gigantic proportions, which keeps Brazil in colossal regression, with losses that will only be recovered, if at all, in a very long time – the economic ones, because the human ones, never."