"The coup wouldn't be successful with Lula free."

247 - In an interview he gave this Friday, the 26th, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated that the coup will not be concluded with him at liberty. 

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"I could have chosen never to go to that place. So I made the mistake of going to the place. I said, and it's proven, that I learned about that damned place on January 15, 2011. And the place had an owner, a pre-owner. Jacob Bittar was my friend of 40 years; he bought the place in his son's name with a check from Caixa Econômica Federal, and the police know this. The police investigated. We had police officers and prosecutors visiting the homes of rural workers, construction workers, caretakers; they even asked the chickens, 'Do you know Lula?' 'Do you know if Lula owns it?' And not even the chickens said anything. Because I wasn't the owner. If I wanted to, I could have bought it. If I made the mistake of going to a place that someone requested and OAS renovated, someone requested and Odebrecht renovated, then let's discuss the ethical issue, not corruption. It's a different issue. It so happens that the impeachment, the removal of Dilma and..." The coup wouldn't have ended with Lula free. If I were here in prison and the minimum wage had doubled, people might say, 'Wow, Lula is a scoundrel, he was imprisoned and the wage doubled.' But no: they just ended the real increase in the minimum wage. If I were here and people were working with formal contracts, but no. They've invented this story of a 'green and yellow' work card [a card that will bring fewer benefits than the CLT contract]. No employer will hire a worker who doesn't have a 'green and yellow' work card. These people think the people are idiots to keep lying to them all the time.

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