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Time is the lord of reason, the popular saying goes. Makes sense. A confession by former Army Commander Eduardo Villas Bôas is an example of this. The retired general today played a decisive role in changing the history of the country by reducing the PT’s chances of winning the 2018 presidential elections and paving the way for the rise to power of Jair Bolsonaro (no party), the worst president in history. from Brazil. .
In a book by the FGV (Fundação Getúlio Vargas), Villas Bôas reveals that in April 2018 there was a coup plot to pressure the STF (Supreme Federal Court) to reject a habeas corpus that could have prevented the arrest of former President Lula. The PT, leader in the polls for the presidential succession, would be arrested and left out of the polls, which facilitated Bolsonaro’s victory.
In a way, the then army commander acted like the then judge Sergio Moro, another decisive character to change the recent history of Brazil with the condemnation that would serve to remove Lula from the electoral race. With the passage of time, Villas Boas and Moro get smaller.
At that time, Villas Bôas’ tweets were credited to the account of the Army commander, the position he held. FGV’s book shows that he was more serious. By the confession of Villas Bôas himself, it is now known that the demonstrations on Twitter were combined and approved by the High Command of the Army. This body groups the army commander and the four-star generals in active service (15 at present).
Villas Bôas’s confession shows that there was a direct threat to the Supreme Court, the guardian of the Constitution and one of the basic institutions of Brazilian democracy. At that time, on April 3, 2018, Villas Bôas made two posts on Twitter.
First entry: “In this situation that Brazil is experiencing, it remains to ask the institutions and people who are really thinking about the good of the country and future generations and who only care about personal interests.”
Second: “I assure the Nation that the Brazilian Army believes that it shares the desire of all citizens to repudiate impunity and respect the Constitution, social peace and Democracy, as well as monitor their institutional missions.”
The pressure on the Supreme Court is evident in the extract “I assure the Nation that the Brazilian Army believes that it shares the desire of all citizens to repudiate impunity.” The famous “good citizen” could not be absent, of course.
The STF felt the pressure. Ministers Cármen Lúcia and Rosa Weber were decisive votes in the tight score of 6 to 5 against habeas corpus, paving the way for Lula’s arrest. Cármen Lúcia would also manipulate the court’s agenda to avoid the trial of an action that could have freed Lula, for questioning the validity of his detention after sentencing in the second instance. Lula would be imprisoned for 580 days in Curitiba until the Supreme Court ruled out the action ignored by Cármen Lúcia.
Returning to Villas Bôas, the deposition book to the FGV completely demolishes the false figure of a Democratic general concerned about the Constitution. It leaves the High Command in a bad way, as shown by the coup by the Army that persists today in the Armed Forces. The demonstrations in Villas Bôas, called “controversies” by sectors of the press, are a pure blow. They attacked the Constitution. They were criminals.
In the book, Villas Bôas also reports on a consultation with then-Vice President Michel Temer about the possible approval of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. In practice, he obtained the support of the Armed Forces for the 2016 parliamentary coup and appointed the prime minister of Temer’s Institutional Security office, Sérgio Etchegoyen.
There are two other parts of the book that demoralize Villas Bôas and the Armed Forces. The first is the revelation that there were no apologies from the Armed Forces for the crimes committed in the 1964 military dictatorship for fear of being punished in court. That is, historic cowardice and political myopia, since the STF already said that the amnesty was valid for crimes committed by the military.
The second extract is a summary of the culmination of Bolsonarista thought that helps to explain why so many generals are part of the captain’s government. Villas Bôas says: “The more gender equality, the more femicide grows; the more racial discrimination is fought, the more it intensifies; the greater the environmentalism, the more the environment is damaged.” Do you need to comment?
For those who gave a testimony concerned about their place in history, Villas Bôas made it very clear which path he decided to follow. The bad. That towards the trash can of history.
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