Lula da Silva: "The privatization process in Bras …

The former Brazilian president Lula da Silva, prisoner in Curitiba for a cause without concrete evidence, granted an exclusive interview to Page / 12 in which he details his days spent in the prison where he has been held since 7 April. He said his hours are spent reading and keeping a close watch on latent debates in Brazil, whose Workers Party or the Single Workers' Central (CUT), but their spirit is turned towards the future, at the moment they release it.

"I want you to know something, one thing before: I go out with someone and I want to get married when I get out of here., detailed in the dialogue with Nicolás Trotta and Gisela Mariziotta during the first exchange with an Argentine media since his imprisonment. Lula could get out of jail before the end of the year, because after reducing his sentence to eight years of the Supreme Court of Justice in April, he will be able to request this month that he be placed under house arrest. or ask for a semi-open plan, once Sixth of his grief.

Lula told that she was living "Maybe better than Pepe Mujica when I was in the isolated cell of Uruguay," in "an isolated cell" in which he receives lawyers every day and "the next family" once a week, referring to his brother and his children.

"Although I am not present, I participate in meetings all over Brazil, in which the PT participates, in which the CUT participates", said the former president about the constant follow-up of political discussions from the country. "I get a USB stick and I see the meeting"He said and added, "I see a lot of debate, I've read more than I've read in all my life."

In posing his political position on the current situation, the head of the PT has compared the Argentinean menemism to the country model that has been installed in Brazil in recent years, first with Michel Temer (the former vice president). having played an active role in the coup against Dilma Rousseff). and then with the far right Jair Bolsonaro. "Here in Brazil, the privatization process is worse than that of Menem in Argentina. These people do not run Brazil, they sell Brazil " expanded.

The former president then transferred this vision to the rest of the continent, where conservative governments have triumphed in recent days, and even beyond, to explain current geopolitics. "It's hate against South America, hatred against Latin America, hate against Africa and the US government's bootlick"