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While Brazil has paid attention to the Cup of the World, the Chamber of Deputies has urgently approved one of the most shameful laws in its history. With a simple majority of 217 votes, they decided to sell to foreigners 70% of the huge pre-salt fields that Petrobras received directly from the government in 2010. It was another step of the coup government and its allies to deliver our wealth and destroy the greatest
The bill pbaded last week is a crime against the homeland, which requires a firm reaction from society to be detained in the Senate, before it is too late. It's a decision that delivered pre-salt fields with a potential to contain about 20 billion barrels of oil and gas, bypbading the law that guarantees pre-salt for Brazilians.
To understand the seriousness of this crime, it is necessary to return to the year 2009, when Petrobras had to invest to explore the newly discovered pre-salt. We next introduce a bill in which the Union (to which the oil reserves, do not forget) sells to the public oil company, in exchange for obligations, the right to do so. exploit up to 5 billion barrels of oil in pre-salt fields. This was the so-called Onerous Assignment.
So, the company appreciated, made the largest capitalization transaction in history and became able to invest. The result is that, in record time, pre-salt is already producing 1.7 million barrels per day, more than half of the national production. As it was a special operation, to defend the country's strategic interests, we defined in Law 12.276 / 10, that the Onerous Assignment "is non-transferable".
Outside this area, pre-salt can only be exploited through the sharing regime, through legislation that guarantees the sovereignty of the country and directs this wealth towards investments in education, health, science and technology. There are already studies indicating that oil from the Early Allocation fields will be priced between US $ 6 and $ 8 per barrel, the cost of exploration, when the international price of the barrel oscillates between U $ 70 and US $ 80. The chances of finding oil in these fields are almost total because we Brazilians have already mapped the areas. For oil companies, it's like buying a winning lottery ticket. For Brazil, it's like selling chicken from the fable, which lay eggs in gold.
In possession of these fields, foreigners will buy probes and platforms, without generating a single job in Brazilian industry. They will hire engineers and technicians there;
This attack is ongoing since the beginning of the coup government, when they approved the so-called Lei Serra, which ruled out participation in all pre-salt fields. This was another blow to the Brazilian naval industry, which added to the decision to reduce to 50% Petrobras' obligation to buy machinery and equipment. equipment in Brazil, what is called local content.
Pedro Parente, president of Petrobras PSDB, began privatizing strategic activities such as biofuel production, distribution of cooking gas, fertilizer production and petrochemical interests. It has sold Liquigás, BR Distribuidora, the Três Lagoas Nitrogen Plant and the Southeast Gas Pipeline (NTS).
In another criminal maneuver, he reduced fuel production up to 30% in Brazilian refineries. We stopped producing here, in real, to import dollars. He made almost daily adjustments of fuels, above international prices, which increased the profits of foreigners. We can not forget that the first to suffer from the new price policy of Petrobras were the poorest, who started to use firewood and alcohol very dangerous to cook because of l '. brutal increase of the gas cylinder
This disastrous policy provoked, in May, the paralysis of the terrestrial transports which caused so much damage to the country. Ipea has just announced that industrial production fell by 13.4% this month. There was no decline even in the first month of the global financial crisis of 2008, when the decline was 11.2% (and we must remember that we quickly overcame this crisis).
In two years, there were more than 200,000 layoffs of Petrobras workers and contractors under contract with it, in addition to more than 60,000 layoffs in the naval industry. The machinery and equipment industry estimates that 1 million jobs were lost in the oil and gas chain as a result of this suicide operation.
The devaluation of Petrobras equity by the sale of controlled companies entails the loss of the Brazilian market, the option of becoming a mere exporter of crude oil, among other damaging actions of Parente, is dozens of times more than the $ 6 billion that would have been diverted in the cases studied by Lava Jato
Last week's vote in the House, on an emergency basis, without debate with the company, has showed that the government of the coup d'etat has a desperate rush to hand over the national heritage and destroy our larger society
The truth is that their time is running out. They run to deliver what they promised to the sponsors of the coup d'état of impeachment in 2016: our oil, our wealth, the popular businesses, Petrobras, Eletrobras and the public banks. That is why, and to repeal the rights of workers, that they have overthrown the honest President Dilma Rousseff.
Over the course of two years, the coup plotters and capitalists of the PSDB subjected Brazil to the geopolitical interests of the United States, not just Petrobras. The foreign policy of the Tutsi chancellors was again dictated by the US State Department, in a shameful return to the sheep complex that we had pbaded in our government.
But their time ends in October, when Brazil will elect a democratic government, with the legitimacy to overturn the agenda of entreguismo, ultra-liberalism, which only concerns the market and not the country or our people. When Brazil will elect a government that will end the frenzy of privatization and delivery of national heritage.
You can be sure: to come back to the government with the strength of the people and the legitimacy of the democratic vote, let's reverse everything they do against our people, against the workers and against the country.