AH BOM...
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Marco Aurélio Garcia, professor da Unicamp, é um dos poucos intelectuais restantes do PT. É também assessor especial da Presidência da República para Relações Exteriores e amigo íntimo do presidente Lula. Publicamente, diz que a crise do “Mensalão” não passa de um conluio da direita, etc. Privadamente, diz coisas bem mais interessantes. Os trechos seguintes foram extraídos de um relatório publicado por um think tank de esquerda britânico (www.tni.org). No mesmo relatório há entrevistas com outras figuras da esquerda brasileira, motivo pelo qual recomendo a leitura a quem tenha saco. As partes mais picantes estão destacadas em vermelho(em inglês que eu não tenho paciência para traduzir):
SOBRE A POLÍTICA ECONÔMICA DO GOVERNO LULA
When we won the election, we were confronted with two types of problem: short- to medium term problems, and medium- to long-term problems. The former were the serious threats that the Brazilian economy faced: inflation, increasing debt, enormous vulnerability to foreign forces, economic paralysis, unemployment. The latter were due to the fact that the economy had practically stagnated for 20 years and this had exacerbated inequalities. Most of our voters were worried about these latter problems; a smaller number were concerned about the former. But it was clear that we had to resolve the macro-economic imbalances if we were to be able to govern. It was for this reason that the Lula government took conservative economic measures.
I think the big problem we faced was that we were not very clear on how long we would have to apply these policies. My opinion and the opinion of many people in the government was that this would be a transitional period. But I didn’t have the information to know how long the transition would last.
As the transitional period became longer and longer, there was no attempt to explain that it was a transitional period. On the contrary, the economic team expressed themselves in conservative terms and praised the conservative policies. They are people with historical links to financial circles, to the economic apparatus of previous governments.
SOBRE A CORRUPÇÃO DA MÁQUINA PARTIDÁRIA
I was Secretary for International Relations for ten years, and a member of the national executive. I never received a salary, because I lived off the salary I earned as a university lecturer. One member of a left-wing tendency, who is also a university lecturer, received a salary of R$7,200 a month from the party. That is more than I receive today in my current job.
Even before we were elected, money became very easy to come by. All these leaders had well-paid secretaries, with telephones. We had a luxurious headquarters, here in Brasília, 14 cars available for national leaders, and so on. It was insane.
There was a lot of money available. Why did these things occur? Because the party stopped focusing on politics, in the real sense of the word, and began to be more concerned with building the party machine.
The party president, Genoíno, is not a perverse bureaucrat. He is a decent man. He has a history. He is a respectable man. But he was a weak political leader and this weakness allowed the bureaucracy to grow.
In my opinion it has been more or less clear since February or March [2005] that the party leadership is incapable of handling the situation.
The two most serious issues – and they are very serious issues – are the following: the reckless way in which the party leadership handled the situation and its complete autonomy from both the majority and minority tendencies within the party; and the idea that the party could build a machine within the structure of government, not only to take money from the state, but also to use the power of the state to extract resources from the business world.
Many people within the majority tendency were clearly negligent and careless. I consider myself to be one of them.
I’m a great personal friend of Zé Dirceu, and I think he is a very important figure in the party’s history. But he bears a great deal of responsibility for what happened. As far as I am aware, he is only charged with being politically responsible, not with benefiting personally. There may be other things, but I can only talk about what I know.
I will always remember a slogan that I saw at a demonstration a few days before the overthrow of the Allende government in Chile: ‘It’s a shit government, but it’s our government!’ I can say the same thing about the party: it has a shit leadership, but it is our party.
Ah bom…
No PSDB, ultimamente, tem havido aquela febre dos pré-candidatos se declarando figuras nacionais. Alckmin, por exemplo, já declarou ter raízes bainanas (“Eu sou baiano!”) e mineiras. Mais um pouco e o pai dele terá nascido no Oiapoque e a mãe, no Chuí.
Um aspone qualquer andou conversando com FFHH sobre isso, e lembrou que o então candidato também tinha declarado ter raízes africanas. Sua Majestade perdeu o trono, mas não a pose. Ao diálogo:
ASPONE: O sr. também fez isso. Eu me lembro que o sr. disse que tinha o pé na cozinha...
FFHH: Francesa, naturalmente...
Ah bom...
Currently feeling: giggly
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