No to the privatization of the Brazilian people's assets.
Those in favor of privatization constantly try to convince the population that governments shouldn't own companies. And that's true, they shouldn't and they don't! No state-owned company belongs to any government. They are all part of the Brazilian state's assets, built with public money, integral to the country's wealth. Therefore, it is absurd, if not criminal, that a clique of political party members, whose only objective is easy profit, tries to hand over national wealth at any cost. The shady deals involving national assets with large international market players disregard the entire history of struggle in building the Brazilian nation.
The recent injunction by Minister Ricardo Lewandowski of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), mandating that any privatization project must pass through Congress for examination of the conditions and reasons, the necessary public disclosure to the country, and the consequent authorization, or not, by those we believe to be the representatives of society and collective interests, places an important barrier in this process of backroom deals in the basements of the federal capital. At a time when Brazilian state-owned companies are suffering the greatest attack since the time of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC), a government that handed over strategic companies to the greed of international capital, we have watched almost motionless over the last two years as Petrobras has been dismembered. Temer's misgovernment continues trying at all costs to privatize Eletrobras. The struggle of its workers has been tireless and likely contributed to Minister Lewandowski granting an injunction preventing the direct sale of our companies without Brazilians knowing the true reasons and criteria used by the immoral occupants of power in Brasília for the successive sales of assets, under the flimsy political pretext of selling to pay off debts.
In Rio de Janeiro, we are also witnessing a similar attack on public assets with the attempted privatization of Cedae, the company responsible for supplying water to more than 11 million people. In a more shameless manner, the submissive state government, mired in debt and an acute financial crisis, continues to be blackmailed by the same clique in Brasília, with one difference: its main allies/accomplices are already imprisoned, accused of various crimes, which in itself should invalidate any parliamentary action that results in harm to the population. Also, as a consequence of a preliminary injunction from the Supreme Federal Court (STF), in the case of Minister Roberto Barroso, Cedae remains public and state-owned, serving the collective interests of the people of Rio de Janeiro.
The election process is approaching, and if you are truly a patriot, you will support those who fight alongside you against privatizations and the handing over of our companies to international capital.
Our state-owned companies generate jobs, income, and produce technology for the development of our nation.
We continue the fight together.
Fighting is not a crime!
AryGirota
