Fiúza gives Lula the Oscar for special effects.

247 - In his column this weekend in Época magazine, journalist Guilherme Fiúza, once again, chose to attack his favorite targets: Lula, Dilma, and the PT (Workers' Party). He says that the former president deserves an Oscar for special effects for electing and probably re-electing Dilma – something that wouldn't fit in Lincoln's biography. Read below:

And the Oscar for special effects goes to... The PT (Workers' Party).

By Guilherme Fiúza

Abraham Lincoln and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are not the same person, but almost. At the CUT's 30th anniversary celebration, the son of Brazil and father of the greatest machine for perpetuating power ever seen in this country complained again in grand style, as is typical of professional victims. He declared that he and his comrade Lincoln are victims of injustice: "I was impressed by how the press attacked Lincoln in 1860. They attack me just like they do."

The similarities don't end there: Lincoln didn't win an Oscar, and neither did Lula. Another trap set by the capitalist system against the people's heroes. How can someone who emerges unscathed from the Mensalão scandal, convincing over 100 million people that he knew nothing, not be awarded an Oscar? It's sheer social injustice. It can only be prejudice from the elites against the former factory worker.

Lincoln and Lula, the Siamese twins of resistance against the bourgeois press, will go down in CUT's history together despite the Hollywood boycott. But Americans shouldn't get too excited about this duo.

Despite the striking similarities between the two statesmen, Lula is better.

Lincoln would never have been able to elect a Dilma and, after an ineffective, lazy, opportunistic, wasteful government that destroyed institutions with misleading tariffs and equally misleading accounting, then proceed to re-elect her. With all due respect to Yankee mythology and the talent of Steven Spielberg, such a feat doesn't fit into Lincoln's biography. How to transform an unremarkable activist into a national female symbol without her expressing a single original thought in years of public life? Lincoln would have to be born again twice to learn that from Lula.

While the all-time greatest leader of the Americas demonized the press, teaching the working class to distrust free information, hate contradiction, and only trust what their guru says, one could see the amused smiles of Gilberto Carvalho, Brazil's lifelong chief of staff, right beside him. Carvalho is a kind of link between Lula and Dilma, a guarantor of the continuation of the Workers' Party's happy ending in the splendid cradle of the Brazilian state. As is known, for this happy ending to last long, the fairy tale of the oppressed must prevail over real life – hence the systematic animosity towards the press.

Gilberto Carvalho, Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, is always at party forums promising militants that the government will create a new, reliable press. It sounds like a Chavista joke, but it's true. Incidentally, it was one of Carvalho's subordinates who returned from Cuba with a dossier against blogger Yoani Sánchez, meticulously recorded on a CD. It's the old PT (Workers' Party) style of conspiring with their tails sticking out.

Upon the Cuban blogger's arrival in Brazil, organized patrols supporting Fidel Castro's regime suddenly emerged—a movement no one imagined existed, one that had never shown its face anywhere. Suddenly, in a Brazil supposedly democratic and tolerant of ideological differences, these groups that appeared out of nowhere simply prevented public debates with Yoani—by shouting, by force. Who could have orchestrated this fierce little group?

The unbelievable cover-up operation against a blogger, in this depressing spectacle of censorship that Brazil has swallowed, has shown that Chavismo only failed to prosper in Brazil because the oxygen of freedom here is still greater than in Venezuela. But the PT's (Workers' Party) leadership hasn't given up on its doctrine of directed democracy and is green with envy over the manufactured figures produced by comrade Cristina Kirchner, in her Bolivarian crusade for laboratory-generated information. Like Lincoln and Lula, Cristina is also a victim of the reactionary press, which has this morbid obsession with wanting to publicize true public indicators.

BNDES's profits have just been manipulated, thanks to yet another brilliant maneuver by the comrades who produce test-tube surpluses and gloss over inflation. When it comes to trickery to cling to power, it's impressive how the mediocrity of the popular government transforms into brilliance. As Lula said at the CUT: "We know the team we have."

It's a truly amazing team. It deserves at least an Oscar for special effects.