Bricklayer: Petrobras' 'privatizers' don't need to put it up for sale.

By Fernando Britto, from brick 

Almost hidden away on the sixth page of the Economics section ("Market," for them, because economics is what it boils down to), is the Datafolha survey showing that, even with all the media bombardment, almost two-thirds of the population continue to oppose the privatization of Petrobras.

And that, therefore, this shouldn't worry anyone, since this issue "is off the country's political agenda."

That's not true: it is and always has been.

And it is precisely because of the population's rejection that she finds other ways to express herself in politics.

This was the case when Fernando Henrique sold a large portion of his capital on the New York Stock Exchange.

This is how the project, presented this week by José Serra, removes control of pre-salt exploration from the company.

Because the privatization of Petrobras is a reptilian idea, typical of those crawling creatures who are only capable of seeing a servile country, a colony, where they, of course, play the role of a sub-nobility that enriches itself mediocrely with the crumbs of plundering the people and nature.

Its "privatization" is achieved through destruction and "shrinkage," as well as through the alienation of our oil reserves.

Now, because of corruption – which is neither new nor old – Petrobras's "very good friends" want to "drain" it.

The curious thing is that they don't want to "drip it" of the monstrous speculation and financial pressures exerted against it.

But what is its greatest value to the country is the pre-salt reserves and the company's ability to drive a huge engine of job and income generation for the country, expressed in shipyards, constructions, equipment, and everything else that now requires national content.

That's why they resort to a thousand "technical management" stratagems, something the company has never lacked, because it's a more than structured corporation and the breaches in its governance dikes, from which a river of money leaked out, were not caused by politicians.

Let us remember that those who are accused of stealing from it are all career employees, rotten apples among thousands of capable, honorable, and hardworking Brazilians who make it up.

Those who privatize Petrobras don't need to put it up for sale.

All it takes is for them to destroy the grandeur of its role, always and even more so now that the country discovers it possesses immense oil reserves.

Reptiles and reptilian ideas are like this: their venom weakens the victim, and they crush and swallow it.