The press discredits Congress to stifle development and paralyze the government.

Everyone knows, even a newborn, that the privately owned and ideologically right-wing business press fights against the development of the Brazilian people because it does not want their emancipation and, consequently, their autonomy, as well as the self-determination of Brazil and any country whose ruler questions the order established by the large international trusts.

This happens because in Brazil, unlike in countries considered developed and in countries such as Argentina, Venezuela, and Ecuador, the monopoly in the economic sector of communication is dominated by a media oligarchy composed of only six families, who treat the Brazilian people as inept and incompetent, and consider Brazil, with its 200 million inhabitants and a GDP exceeding R$ 4 trillion, as if it were their own backyard.

The calculated strategies of commercial and private media outlets to devalue and discredit politicians and national institutions are systematically and tirelessly disseminated and echoed among the population. The purpose of this perverse process is to subvert the institutional order and weaken the role of the citizen elected by the people and appointed to exercise the authority conferred upon them by the Constitution. The bourgeois press wants to intervene in republican institutions and, consequently, dictate the political and legal life of the country, thus having its political and ideological interests met, as well as its financial business interests realized.

I know that many people disagree with me for purely ideological and even personal reasons, such as when I am offended by readers who criticize even my physical appearance, which is nonsense and senseless, because what is being discussed is what we want for Brazil and what we don't want. However, I repeat: the private and cartelized business press has no commitment to Brazil and never will, because it is an alien sector, that is, without a homeland and in cahoots with the establishment, which over the centuries has carried out a process of deconstructing national identities, lowered the self-esteem of less developed peoples, financed the repression of liberation and even protest movements, and, when necessary, militarily invaded countries whose rulers did not share its agenda, usually of economic and ideological content.

And the oligopolized press, repeatedly and therefore unquestionably, has always served as a mouthpiece for the dominant classes and hegemonic capitalist groups, which finance and define the economic recipes of exploitation imposed by the IMF and the World Bank, and, undoubtedly, if necessary, war. Simply war, the modus operandi of countries like England, the USA, and France, which, instead of respecting international law, prefer to throw respect for dialogue and UN decisions to the wind and opt for the diplomacy of the big stick, in order to quickly and irrevocably realize their geopolitical and economic interests.

These facts and realities also occur on a domestic—national—level. And that is exactly how the foreign press in this country behaved. The barons of this historically coup-supporting media tried to discredit and judicialize the electoral process of the National Congress, always giving it a connotation of illegality, making malicious and corrosive insinuations about the candidates for the presidencies of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

This terrible press has reached such a point of incongruity and shamelessness that I thought Senator Renan Calheiros and Congressman Henrique Alves, instead of assuming their respective positions (since they were elected by a large majority of their peers), should be immediately sent to prison, given that the press barons and their lackeys, who speak for them and for no reason, were against the candidacies of the two politicians, members of the PMDB party, and therefore allies of the government and the PT party at the national level.

The press, controlled by six cartel-forming families who fight against Brazil's self-determination and the democratization of the media through the implementation of a regulatory framework for the media, opposes the Federal Government instead of opposition political parties like, for example, the PSDB—the party that sold out Brazil and nobody went to jail. These press barons, for those who don't know, supported and were complicit in the most cruel and longest dictatorship this country has ever had: the military dictatorship (1964-1985), and today they pose as democrats and champions of freedom of expression and of the press. It would be comical if it weren't tragic.

The truth is that these groups fight for the preservation of their freedom of expression and of printing, which has nothing to do with democracy and the democratic rule of law. And there's more: without granting the right of reply and without concern for opposing viewpoints, that is, without listening to the sides involved in any cause, event, or incident. These people like to attack, but they don't want to be criticized or questioned. We defeated the military dictatorship and are now experiencing a dictatorship of the press. The media barons and their henchmen may deceive sectors of Brazilian society for a while, even for a long time, but they cannot deceive and distort reality forever. The private press discredits congressional elections to paralyze development actions for Brazil and its people, and its main objective is to immobilize the government. That's it.