I'm not the most assiduous imgurian, I don’t go to www.imgur.com every day, but every of these days that I go there to distract myself, laugh, and thrill, I noticed something that has been bothered and worried me.
Those beautiful images about revolutions taking place somewhere in the world, NOW.
I understand.
Who don't like revolutions?
Who, from the common people, don't get excited and inspired by seeing some of ours brothers from distant places fighting the system and government, for F-R-E-E-D-O-M and J-U-S-T-I-C-E and E-Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y?
But, "the devil is in the details", remember?
You don't know perhaps, but here in Brasil, in 1964, the president João Goulart, a man that only wanted see our country develops, if possible with quality, equality and justice (trust me, there hasn't had much back there), without colonial privileges from the past, that president was removed by a coup d'etat.
By whom?
The army.
The little bourgeoisie, with the family values blessed by Jesus Christ, amen.
The landowners.
The media magnates.
And... by USA's Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1954, former president (and somewhat dictador) Getúlio Vargas shoot his own heart to delay all this and prevent a civil war because if he couldn’t be removed, they couldn’t usurp power.
João Goulart doesn't had the same "luck", especially after that fateful rally on 13 March in the "Central do Brasil" in the center of Rio de Janeiro, where he spoke and promised to 150 thousand brazilians that he would make the reforms that the country still needs today to end the shameful cycle of poverty and underdevelopment of the country.
On 1 April 1964, with a lot of slanders, lies, money and support the USA's fourth-fleet navy, began civil-military dictatorship that lasted 20 years and turned my country, Brasil, in the most obscenely unequal in this world.
Now, after a lull, the "hidden forces" are teaming up again.
And I'm not kidding, I'm dead serious.
You know Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
After a few of neoliberal governments which finished to bankrupt the country THREE TIMES IN EIGHT YEARS, his government of his “Workers Party”, brought a period of development and growing prosperity for the country. Extreme poverty is being greatly diminished and most people now have access to education and job prospects for a better future that simply did not existed before.
Obviously his government and off his successor Dilma Rousseff have flaws. It has good points in addition to giving priority to the most miserable like stop “selling” (in practice donating) our patrimony, among other things. But this is a evolutionary improvement, not a revolutionary. Lula and Dilma made a GRAVE MISTAKE. They believed they could live together with these "hidden forces" without confronting them. But for them, Dilma and Lula are just two poor who achieved the presidency by luck. As we live in a democracy would be suffice simply wait for their candidates from the extreme right/neoliberal spectrum go back to power in the next election and undo everything (one of the candidates from 2010 election promised to revoke the new rules and return oil fields to Chevron).
But they lost the next election, and the next... and are almost losing the next this year.
Now you see frequent protests in the streets, outraged people, awareness campaigns, "# Won’tBeWorldCup"... bullshit!
Who is sponsoring this?
The press who supported and still supports the dictatorship. Many call for the return of the military, some who even today defend torture!
Some of the large landowners to have privileges in a new government.
The businessmen in collusion with politicians.
The big banks that charge interest rates of up to 1000% (not making this) a year and evade billions in taxes (Itaú Unibanco owe in unpaid taxes almost the equivalent to the budget of the World Cup).
Middle class who live in condominiums locked out of touch with the reality of the countryside, people who complain about the crumbs that social assistance give to the poorest but feasts with all the expensive financial and studies aid programs that the government offers. Which is funny, because I include people who risen socially in recent years and now want more but without offering anything in return.
And international NGOs…
The "hidden forces" (not so hidden) are trying again.
Almost worked in 1954.
Worked very well in 1964.
Maintained some control after the return of democracy in 1990's.
The research institute Datafolha (owned by one of the newspapers that supported the dictatorship and lended cars to torturers) did a survey asking what people think about the return of a dictatorship, the end of individual liberties, political repression, contempt for human rights and the use of torture!
(this hellshit is real - http://pesqele.tse.jus.br/pesqele/publico/CarregarArquivoQuestionario.abrir?id=20465)
I already have enough problems with the manipulation of information throughout the day here, and this manipulation does not come from the government, believe me. The government is cowardly and does not face the press and the speculators. I even thought of mention a few examples, but I think it is unnecessary for me to pass the message. If a revolution happen here, now, people would benefit? But of course it would! If anyone would benefit there would be no revolution, this goes anywhere. Except that would only benefit a minority, that infamous "1%". We live in a democracy that needs to be respected. Many of the problems that the country has is not only the government's fault. We have several political and administrative positions that do not do their job properly, and the people, which also takes advantage of this "state of social malaise" to make matters worse. We live in a democracy, we do need a bit of fights, but what we need the most is cooperation and participation of the people on a daily basis.
That's why every time I see on IMGUR those images of revolution and people taking the streets somewhere in the world, filtered by the press, I feel sad and apprehensive.
How is Libya, Egypt, Syria today? All those countries in Africa, Indonesia, Middle East? Not everything is what it seems, as Ukraine indicates.
Foreign governments support and make decisions not by what is right for the people, they do it just by following their own interests. In many cases, they have clandestinely invested a lot in these "spontaneous" revolutions, for the misfortune of the people of these countries.
I know that of those people on IMGUR and others places are “all” good people, precisely that's why I beg, to them and to you, please be careful and do not contribute to it.
- Panino Manino from Brasil, only a fool who don't like sad things.
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