Lula against a government linked to "militias" …

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Lula in favor of students, against a government linked to paramilitary "militias" and attentive to the evolution of the crisis in Venezuela that will not be resolved, he added, with the intervention of the 39 Brazilian army, which could have "disastrous" consequences.

Two days of what could be the most popular event since the beginning of Jair Bolsonaro 's administration yesterday were statements of the former president who rebutted the 30% reduction in the budget of the president. university.

In the Superintendence of the Federal Police in Curitiba, where he has been staying for more than a year, he has granted a two and a half hour interview to the British BBC, of ​​which new sections have been published.

Bolsonaro and Abraham Weintraub, their second education minister (the first lasted three months), justified the adjustment of the budget of the university and federal colleges, along with the announcement construction of military schools in several states. Desaforados, also said that in the universities should not be a political activist and proposed that the teacher Paulo Freire ceases to be the godfather of Brazilian education.

Immediately, high school students, parents and teachers demonstrated outside the Rio de Janeiro Military College. Subsequently, concentrations of university students erupted in Brasilia, Curitiba, Bahia and Rio as a prelude to the events called for tomorrow.

"Bolsonaro cuts the money of universities, science and technology and will cut, better to violate the Brazilian people by taking one trillion reals ($ 250 million)" if its pension reform project is approved, asked Lula.

"The Brazilian people need hope, someone to tell them how the problem of economic growth is going to be solved, how will the employment problem be solved." will have no growth in this country if the poor are not included in the budget of the Union, if the citizens become re-subjugated or there is no solution. "

It was the second interview, the previous one concerned the Folha and El País newspapers, authorized by the Federal Supreme Court in less than a month. Both were censored last year during the election campaign because of the argument (pretext) that the PT leader's statements may have an impact on the normal evolution of the conflict over the past year. Presidency.

With the former prisoner proscribed and deprived of his right to protest through the media, the campaign experienced an atypical development that ended with the triumph of the right-wing candidate. A few weeks had pbaded since the triumph of Bolsonaro when information was revealed about the links of one of his sons, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, with the "militia" of Rio de Janeiro (see separate article ).

It seems that this information has been preserved by the authorities to preserve the image of Bolsonaro during the fight for the presidency. Neither the justice nor the press has put a lot of tenacity on the issue that has begun to emerge drip of information.

Yesterday, the state newspaper published an interview with Flavio Bolsonaro in which he allegedly agreed to organize a tribute to Adriano Magalhaes da Nóbrega, a retired police officer, considered the head of the police. one of the most violent paramilitary groups of Carioca, apparently involved in the killing of activist Marielle Franco.

Bolsonaro's son confirmed that when he was provincial legislator in Rio, he had hired the wife and mother of Magalhaes da Nobrega.

Lula spoke of the government's close relationship with these gangs and mentioned an old friend of Jair Bolsonaro, also an alleged paramilitary, Fabricio Queiroz, whose justice was condemned by condescension. "Bolsonaro must stop governing for his militia, he must rule for the Brazilian people, and in everything he does, a militiaman appears, a militiaman here, a militiaman there, a militiaman who finds a job, that's what I see in the newspapers. "

At another point in the report, he reiterated his request for justice, at the same time as he had criticized former Judge Sergio Moro, current Minister of Justice and mentor of the Lava Jato case. And he left open questions about US interest in this process.

"I do not agree to be criminalized (I do not admit) the harm they 've done." I now want to prove that those who should be imprisoned are them because "I do not know what to do. they have lied to the country and have destroyed millions of jobs.What service did they (they did it?), that's what i want to know.There is a video of the US Attorneys with Moro celebrating my prison, where they say they have actively participated to arrive from where they came from. "

"I am not someone who is planning conspiracies all day long, but, historically, the United States has never accepted that Brazil is an international protagonist".

Venezuela

At the end of March, former captain Bolsonaró told the White House, in front of Donald Trump, that he was willing to participate in a military invasion of Venezuela. Then, it was partially corrected and returned later to the charge with the warrior thesis.

If the will of the president is fulfilled, Brazil will suffer serious consequences, denies Lula.

"It would be catastrophic in every way, politically, economically and militarily." The Brazilian army is not prepared for war, it has been prepared for a long time to procure internal enemies. "

Bolsonaro is a "mediocre president" who, with the complicity of the United States, "incites" all the time, while recognizing the "cheek" of Juan Guaidó as Venezuelan president.

Instead of provoking the conflict, Plbadto's palace leader should "pick up the phone (talk to Maduro), take a trip to Venezuela (…) talk to help find a solution," he concluded.