The CPI of mockery
Before long, Cachoeira will be back on the streets, like so many corruptors and corrupted individuals whose exploits have haunted the nation.
The Cachoeira CPI threatens, with apologies for the redundancy, to turn into a pure farce... The impression one gets is that it's merely a platform for politicians seeking the spotlight.
The primary function — to investigate the extensive web of corruption involving private companies, shell companies ("front companies"), and public authorities — does not stand out as a priority or commitment of most parliamentarians responsible for the inquiry.
Everything we know so far is thanks to the Federal Police investigation. Fortunately, it was leaked, and we became aware of the telephone conversations held under the cover of illegality. And of how senatorial mandates are monitored by organized crime.
The problem is that even the defendants' lawyers don't seem interested in examining the indictments gathered by the Federal Police. The room that keeps the documents under lock and key is useless. The evidence lies dormant behind the scenes, while the parliamentarians seek the limelight of the stage.
It's no longer a matter of investigating, but of shielding. Carlinhos Cachoeira's deafening silence finds an echo in the complicit silence of the political groups represented in the CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) and linked to suspected governors. "If you discard mine, I'll clear yours," one party seems to say to the other.
It won't be long before Cachoeira is back on the streets. Like so many corruptors and corrupted individuals whose exploits have astonished the nation, and yet they found loopholes in our failed judicial system, designed to ensure immunity and impunity for the elite and punish the common people, to avoid paying for their crimes, much less returning the stolen money to the public coffers.
Even Delta, a company with national reach, managed to shield itself by having the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) investigate it only within a restricted regional scope. Are the parliamentarians afraid to shake the coconut tree and have their heads cracked open by the coconut?
The governors under suspicion should come forward to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry and be willing to testify, opening their bank accounts and phone records. This is the attitude expected of a statesman who values his reputation and reaffirms his ethical stance. Politics is the most public of human activities and should be based on the transparency of those who hold a mandate granted by popular vote.
The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) does not have the power to break the silence of those giving testimony. Everyone will have to enter silently and leave silently. However, it is granted the right and the duty to investigate, cross-reference information, analyze processes, and break telephone and banking secrecy.
It remains to be seen whether she is interested in cleansing Brazilian public life of criminal agents and politicians, or merely pretending to investigate what is not convenient to investigate and those who should not be incriminated.