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General warns about Brazil’s Lula da Silva government

By · January 30, 2023 · 2 min read

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Reserve General Luiz Eduardo Rocha Paiva published an article in which he warned about Brazil’s Lula da Silva government.

In the document, the military man lists arguments that, according to him, reveal the PT’s plan for Brazil: to make the country socialist.

“In the 1979 Charter of Principles of the PT, the acronym declares, through hypocrisy and incoherence, that it aims for a socialist and democratic society,’ and even ends with a cynical hoax, to hide what socialism is, that ‘there is no socialism without democracy nor democracy without socialism,'” observed Rocha Paiva.

“If this were true, Cuba, China, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and the former USSR, totalitarian socialist countries, would be democracies.”

Reserve General Luiz Eduardo Rocha Paiva. (Photo internet reproduction)
Reserve General Luiz Eduardo Rocha Paiva. (Photo internet reproduction)
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“Therefore, these countries being their ideological matrixes, the regime that the PT intends is the same: totalitarian.”

Further on, Rocha Paiva cites elements to corroborate his assertion about the Lula government, based on a text by Valter Pomar, former secretary of the Foro de São Paulo.

Below are the main ones:

  • Pomar advocates changing the nature of the State. The former secretary wants structural reforms: politics, control of the judiciary and the media – the domination of the cultural industry and the educational system;
  • Occupation of the universities, indoctrination in the schools, and training of militant teachers, “intellectuals,” and engaged artists.
    • An efficient strategy that not only consecrated the communist and “apostle” of Liberation Theology, Paulo Freire, as the patron of Brazilian education but also forged the false reputation that contributed so much to the PT’s rise to power;
  • Insertion of social movements, NGOs, and unions in decision-making instances of public administration;
  • The National Human Rights Program of 2009 foresees the creation of popular councils in all instances of society and the State.
    • The National Human Rights Program 2009 foresees the creation of popular councils in all instances of society and the State.
    • This would consolidate the seizure of State Power, with the PT taking the three Branches of Power into its own hands.

“Any similarity with the national context is not mere coincidence,” noted the military man.

“And the President of the Republic leads the PT and the ongoing socialist revolution. Let the national institutions and the citizenry resist, or our Flag will soon be red.”

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