From Rio de Janeiro
Since Lula won the elections for the first time, in 2002and was able to implement his program to Brazil, the country has advanced and improved. To the point that he was re-elected. AND when he was able to run for president again, Lula always triumphed.
He could not be a candidate because he was imprisoned -without evidence- in 2018. He triumphed again in 2022. By a narrow margin, due to the brutal anomalies to which the Judiciary turned a blind eye.
As Lula recalled in a recent interview, never before had so much money been invested in the electoral campaign. Never before had it circulated with such impunity, so much fake news in an election campaign.
That is why Lula won by a narrow margin.
Lula succeeded in 2002, in 2006, in 2022, when he was able to run for president. He rescued Brazil in 2003. He continued to put his anti-neoliberal program into practice. It was due to the recovery of the active role of the State and the priority given to social policies. For the development of policies latin american integration.
It is these extremely successful policies that led to the PT being thrown out of government only for measures that are now fully recognized as a coup against Dilma’s presidency. It was only through a soft hit that the PT saw its successful and triumphant governments interrupted when there were unrestricted elections.
Meant that PT government programs They showed that they are the best proposals for Brazil. Those that are now called “old ideas of Lula”.
When the coup took place that undemocratically removed the PT from the government, in Brazil there were only setbacks. Neoliberal free trade policies once again prevailed; the non-intervention of the State; the privileged alliance with the United States; disrespect for democracy; attacks on the media and the full return of neoliberalism.
That government only maintained itself by preventing Lula from running again. When this happened, despite all the anomalies of the campaign, Lula triumphed because he proposed the resumption of his victorious government program.
What are these “old ideas of Lula”, as the media tries to discredit? It was the fundamental ideas that rescued Brazil, after the long recession left by the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the legacy for the Lula government. Were the neoliberal “old ideas” of the PSDB governmentwhich produced the increase in social and regional inequalities and the longest recession that the country had had until then.
Nothing old is good or bad. It is necessary to analyze the nature of these ideas. Neoliberalism caused an increase in poverty and misery, inequalities. Anti-neoliberalism led Brazil and most Latin American countries to reduce hunger and inequalities, having anti-neoliberal governments.
The media lives on clichés, so as not to have to explain reality. Neoliberalism is a more finished expression of capitalism. It is the conception of the world in which everything must be merchandise, in which the conception according to which everything has a price, everything is sold, everything is bought must prevail in the world.
The old, for the right, is democracy, the validity of rights for all, national sovereignty. The old thing is the construction of a Brazil for all. The old thing is Lula, coming from where she came from, being the most important president Brazil has ever had.
The old is the Family Bag, my house, my lifefull employment, electricity for all, access to free education for all, public university for all.
The “new” is updated liberalism, neoliberalism, which represents the appropriation of wealth by financial capital, by financial speculation, by private banking. It is the increase in social and regional inequalities, it is the world of social exclusions.
