addition on Aug 19, 2014, correction on Aug 20,2014
VERY IMPORTANT
The digital version of the... print edition of Isto é has been ALTERED; altered in a very, very significant way: the photo showing Eduardo Campos, Marina Silva and the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro was ommited... The other photos are all in place.
Yesterday we said here that "the declarations of Eduardo Campos during the meeting with the Archbishop of Rio VANISHED". That was due to a small confusion: such declarations belong to Época rather than Isto é.. We use such declarations in our argumentation, pointing to a conflict between Eduardo and the Archbishop:
Read our post (below) in full to understand its relevance. Alterations of print editions on the internet are - besides anything else - unethical, since the vehicle "updates" the article and does not reveal what the earlier version said.
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I will adopt here a bullet-point format. So take advantage of it, cause it shows how mistaken some - even Edward Snowden - are about Brazil.
- Eduardo Campos belonged to a family of strong politicians, set in the Brazilian Northeast state of Pernambuco.
- Since Eduardo became governor, that region - the poorest in the country - has been shaped under two contrasting models, leading to increasingly visible disparity: one had Lula's assistencialism in large doses, the other enjoyed sustainable change, due to Eduardo's measures that deserved him an The Economist's article in October 2012 - 'The Pernambuco Model'.
- Marina Silva was running as his vice. She was not killed - yet - but had been the object of a highly questionable decision by authorities who denied her the register of a new party, Rede Sustentabilidade.
- That meant Marina could not run for presidency. But then she entered into consultation with Eduardo Campos for a partnership. Her very choice is evidence of the quality of Eduardo. Eduardo was later effected as candidate for presidency and Marina as vice, under PSB (Brazilian Socialist Party).
- Early June Eduardo started his campaign, openly critisizing Dilma Rousseff and her government. From roof tops he, among other bitter declarations, denounced that people in Northeast were the target of government cheap outsourcing who were making threats such as that the 'Bolsa Familia' (government aid) would be cut off if Dilma were not reelected.
- Eduardo and Marina also faced the most crucial element for anyone running a relevant political position in Brazil: the Catholic Church, that is, the Holy See. If such entity does not want certain candidates to rule, that is it! Celso Russomano, for instance, is still alive to tell his story, even though we can easily figure out why he prefers to remain silent - and thus alive. Celso, a month before being elected mayor of São Paulo, had the vast majority of intented votes. Odilo Scherer, the Archbishop, entered the scene, propelling a devastating campaign against him under the pretext of a 'kit gay'; in three days Celso was out of the game. What about Eduardo and Marina?
- No big investigation is necessary to reach the conclusion that the Church did not want them. Indeed, on the eve of the plane crash, both Eduardo and Marina had a long meeting with the Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, city where Eduardo was to make his last - and remarkable - appearance on TV in the evening, following that meeting. It was Wednesday, 12.
- I have not found the report of such meeting elsewhere. Those (very few) lucid about the role of the Holy See in the world cannot be surprised with what was to follow. After such a crucial confrontation - elections just around the corner - a mafioso story followed once again in History.
- The airplane scheduled to fly Eduardo and Marina to Santos on Thusday 13 crashed and... voice recorder transcripts of that flight are declared as non existant.
- Marina - it is certain - was not on board. Eduardo? For the sake of rationality and cientific precision, I cannot declare he was onboard and died. Has a single proof of it been granted, which can be reasonably trusted? None. No identification was possible. The investigation is under secrecy, due to a Dilma Rousseff law passed just the other day. Authorities make silly declarations such as this one, by the Chief of FAB: The last words of the pilot were, We are going to wait the weather improve, before landing.
- That issue of Isto é (the latest, of course) reveals an incredible detail, even though the flow of the text tries to undermine that detail, rather than emphasizing it. Censorship? Almost certainly. The detail: Eduardo Campos, says the magazine, made a phone call to Márcio França, a politican from his party (and who runs as vice for the government of the state of São Paulo, along with the present PSDB ruler, Geraldo Alckmin. Yes, a different party, for Marina's sorrow).
- The call was in the 'madrugada' (anything after midnight and supposedly before Eduardo had gone to bed). Eduardo, continues the magazine, asked Marcio to replace him in the events to take place in Santos, in the morning of that day (13). Eduardo, the magazine adds, gave as reason his wish to enjoy more of the company of his wife and baby son.
Quoting the text:
De madrugada, o candidato à Presidência ligou para o aliado Márcio França (PSB-SP). Pediu ao deputado que o representasse nos eventos marcados para logo cedo na cidade do litoral paulista. O motivo: queria descansar um pouco e passar mais tempo com a família antes de retomar a jornada eleitoral[...] Na manhã da quarta-feira 13, Campos tomou café com a mulher e o filho em Copacabana e seguiu para o aeroporto Santos Dumont. O plano de voo até a Base Aérea de Santos – que fica no Guarujá – havia sido apresentado à torre de controle às 22h36 do dia anterior. Previa decolagem às 9h29. Campos era famoso por sua pontualidade, e o Cessna deixou o solo às 9h21. A bordo estavam, além do candidato
http://www.istoe.com.br/reportagens/377862_OS+ULTIMOS+MOMENTOS+E+O+VOO+FATAL
accessed 20.08.2014 18h05
-The text, as we can see, evolves to fall in contradiction with the part in bold, where the call is mentioned.
- The magazine diverts the subject right on that point to go a long way describing irrelevant detalis of the aircraft (which we ommit above, indicating it with [...]. The link, the connection of ideas in the text is broken, right after that call is reported. Now here goes the full extension of the lines commented:
De madrugada, o candidato à Presidência ligou para o aliado Márcio França (PSB-SP). Pediu ao deputado que o representasse nos eventos marcados para logo cedo na cidade do litoral paulista. O motivo: queria descansar um pouco e passar mais tempo com a família antes de retomar a jornada eleitoral. Até ali, Campos já tinha viajado 36 mil quilômetros em busca de votos pelo Brasil. Para isso, utilizava um jato executivo Cessna Citation 560XLS+, prefixo PR-AFA, fabricado em 2010, que tinha pouco mais de 350 horas de voo quando foi alugado pelo comitê de campanha. Não era uma aeronave luxuosa – até onde é possível dizer isso de jatinhos privados –, mas era conveniente. Levava nove passageiros, além dos dois pilotos, operava bem em pistas curtas, tinha autonomia de 3.440 km/h e atingia velocidade máxima de cruzeiro de pouco mais de 800 km/h.
Na manhã da quarta-feira 13, Campos tomou café com a mulher e o filho em Copacabana e seguiu para o aeroporto Santos Dumont. O plano de voo até a Base Aérea de Santos – que fica no Guarujá – havia sido apresentado à torre de controle às 22h36 do dia anterior. Previa decolagem às 9h29. Campos era famoso por sua pontualidade, e o Cessna deixou o solo às 9h21. A bordo estavam, além do candidato...
- Recapping, the text does not say what was Marcio's reply to Eduardo's request. Many lines ahead, the text contradicts itself, saying that Eduardo boards the plane as the schedule sent to the flight controlling office the day before, at 22h36. So, no postponement of the fight, no proper link of the facts reported.
- As to the reason why Marina da Silva did not fly, when she took that decision and what she did afterwards, I found four different versions.
- So, the title to this article needs correction: it seems Eduardo Campos died, but there is no proof of that. The serenity of the widow is a remarkable detail in face of all above. Remarkable in a very intriguing sense.
- Could someone have boarded the plane, whose name had not appeared so far? Definitely yes.
Bottom line: If you know well the history of the Church and a bit of the history of Brazil, you are much at ease now with the recent events related to the next Brazilian elections. Business - and 'religion', if you want - as usual.
