The Judiciary. Modesto Carvalhosa has recently stated Brazil is under the risk of docking at a judicial dictatorship, the worst kind, he claims, of authoritarian ruling. Carvalhosa, however plausible may sound, did not make any headline. The primary justice Sergio Moro, by contrast, has done so - and a lot.
The president of the Supreme Court (STF) is the fourth in line to presidency; all politicians ahead of him are already implicated in the Lava Jato, which has grown to a sort of goddess for a under schooled, seemingly incurable naive people.
Monday 14 saw a senior editor, Mino Carta, issue a crucial, knowledgeable article titled "A origem do complô" (The origin of the conspiracy). The length and the wording of the article, however, makes it well beyond the grasp of that people. Carta, surely, cannot see any redeemer in Sergio Moro (most to the contrary) and the constant association that judge makes between Lava Jato and an Italian operation in the 1990s is depicted as opportunistic besides misleading.
But Lava Jato - the only thing that seems to function now in Brazil - has been deceitful to more illustrated folks as well. I saw the lady who is the UK consul in São Paulo assert in an event at FIESP a few months ago that the "institutions are working" and that Lava Jato is a landmark in Brazilian democracy. The international media has also bought that - which is not surprising since what the international media does is just follow the national one. Derisively, Mino Carta calls the Brazilian media, the "native" media, especially meaning it is far from independent.
Indeed, Lava Jato has turned into an all-mighty actual lady-in-chief thanks to the services of that native media. And the intended results come so easily and fast due to the shallowness of mind of the typical Brazilian - all social classes included.
Sergio Moro is an impeccable offspring
of these fake redemocratization times
What's in Mino Carta's article, after all?
Sergio Moro's study on the Italian Mani Pulite is useful, Carta claims, to apprehend Moro's true ambition and provincial haughtiness. The senior editor goes on to compare Italy and Brazil, the latter falling short as to housing a State of Law, the most recent evidence being the show throwing to the stage former president Lula da Silva, in a demonstration of the close partnership between Sergio Moro and the police, points out Carta.
Furthermore, it is argued that Sergio Moro has been corrupted by fame, taking then advantage of the general stupidity. Besides pointing several mistakes in Moro's study of the Mani Pulite, Carta highlights that such Italian operation never did anything akin to the procedures - ordered by Moro - that coerced Lula da Silva on March 4.
Carta sums up by declaring that Moro's views on Mani Pulite reveal his personality: one that is not only provincial, but essentially childish. Sergio Moro, he adds, is an impeccable offspring of these fake redemocratization times, also marked by cultural decay, unprecedented arrogance and crushing stupidity. Carta's last drop: 'And comparing Lava Jato with Mani Pulite is a sheer ridiculous enterprise.'
Note: I have no links whatsoever with Mino Carta, Sergio Moro or any political party.
