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Introduction and genesis
The story I will tell is of a typical banana republic in our dearest Latin America and we will see what happens when the media, determinism and influences from abroad create a political Frankenstein to prevent socialism in the US backyard.
Fernando Collor de Mello was born on August 12, 1949 in the city of Rio de Janeiro but spent most of his childhood and youth in Alagoas, to know about his life we will have to dissect his family, he was the son of Arnon de Mello, a journalist who became an influential caudillo in Alagoas and was appointed senator by the military dictatorship, known for having tried to shoot a political rival from his state Silvetre Péricles in full national plenary, in which case he ended up missing the shot and ended up killing an alternate congressman named José Kairala and because it was his last session in the senate, José took his children and wife to watch him, the poor man was not involved in their intrigue but ended up tragically passing away, and because Arnon was the owner of the largest newspaper and radio conglomerate in his state. and responsible for the retransmission of the largest TV station and the most influential and largest media conglomerate in the country in Alagoas: A Globo (keep this information well), Arnon was released by the justice system. a after 3 hours in prison and was soon acquitted by the same Globo with this pathetic note printed in the newspapers:
"Democracy, despite being the best of political regimes, leaves room, when the electorate is deceived or is not sufficiently enlightened, for the people of a single state – as is the case – to place a violent primary in the same legislative house. , like Mr. Silvestre Péricles, and an intellectual, like Mr. Arnon de Mello, bringing them together in the same sad episode, although they are so different in temperament, culture and education"
Fernando was also a grandson by maternal lineage of Lindolfo Collor, one of the coup leaders in 1930 and minister of popular labor for having been responsible for the consolidation of labor laws and with this information we know how politically influential his origins were and how he was the perfect recipe for another politician created on the basis of the old Brazilian patrimonialism, but before that I will speak specifically of Fernando's personal trajectory, he spent his youth studying sometimes in Maceió and sometimes in Brasília and graduated in economics at UFAL, but he did not go to work first hand in the economic area and with all effort(sic) was appointed director of his father's conglomerate, a position in which he remained until 1979, at the same time he married Lilibeth Monteiro, who was heiress of Grupo Monteiro Aranha, one of the largest investment business groups in Brazil, a marriage that it was a facade.
Beginning of political career and diffusion of pre-candidate
We saw how Fernando easily managed to gain economic and media influence regionally, but I did not speak when he began to enter politics, so because of his influence in local newspapers and because his family was powerful in the region, Fernando was appointed by the dictatorship as intervening mayor of Maceió, capital of Alagoas in 1979, he voted in favor of redemocratization and was elected governor in 1985, in the same year of the first indirect elections for president of Brazil after decades of military dictatorship and Tancredo Neves is elected, a centrist who was an important figure in the movement for the redemocratization of the country. country and a figure who represented to the people a hope for a better country, the problem is that he could not take office because of a generalized diverticulitis/infection and ended up dying and a new election this time direct would be planned for the year 1990.
Fernando as the power maniac that he was goes in 1987 to the headquarters of Editora Abril (media group financed by think-tanks of former members of the dictatorship) to talk about his power project with the CEOs and they like his project and give him a space to give an interview to Revista Veja, the most published magazine nationally, which at the time produced 800,000 copies a week, his project was to wipe out the public machine and all the inefficient employees that he pejoratively calls "marajás" but the magazine fell in love with it so much. from Fernando who began to publish articles that today would be extremely ridiculous about Fernando's appearance, athleticism and vanity, but in the past these articles were very important for the dissemination of the candidate treating him more like a socialite than a candidate for the presidency , one of them is as follows:
"Collor de Mello takes care of his physical form with twenty minutes of swimming and jogging a day in Lago Sul, in Brasília: I want to see the other candidates put up with this momentum".
"At 39, Collor is a candidate in good physical shape and very careful with his health. He sleeps a maximum of four hours a day – but fuels his body daily with three spoonfuls of guarana powder. Every morning, Collor runs 2000 meters along the avenues of Lago Sul, in one of the most valued areas of the federal capital, and exercises for fifteen minutes on an Apolo machine. Collor still finds time for twenty minutes of swimming a day"
"In his youth, in Brasília, Collor was successful among his friends because he was a black belt in karate".
"To keep in shape (he weighs 90 kilos, distributed in a height of 1.89 meters), Collor runs 25 minutes in the morning, when he has no early appointments, swims in his home pool or does gymnastics on weight machines"
Globo, manipulation and the electoral campaign
Globo, as I said, was and still is the largest television network in Brazil and has always had a very close relationship with the right, both during the dictatorship and after the end of it, and as Collor already had contacts at Globo through the retransmitter in Alagoas , he talks with a production director Alberico de Sousa Cruz and makes him appear in almost every story about problems in the country and talk about how his state government solved such problems, with Alagoas being in absolute misery in which 1000 125 children died before completing their first year of life, 42% of the state was unemployed and 70% were illiterate, basically TV Globo made Collor a recurring character as an example of an ideal politician, in addition to which Fernando took advantage of the time very well free electoral campaign in which his advertisements were very successful and in them he talked about the "fight against the maharajas", his adoption of the Christian faith, he personally attacked his opponents and talked about how he respected the savings account of the population unlike its opponents (REMEMBER THAT).
At the end of the first round, which had 22 CANDIDATES, I repeat 22 CANDIDATES, Collor was in first place and Lula, a workers' leader with a socialist bias, in second, thus taking the dispute to the decision in the second round and there was a debate between them on TV Globo. and everything was prepared to be a great debate, the first one after redemocratization, and there they were both and they confronted each other, in the studio at the end of the debate the majority present said that Lula won but the general public that watched on television said that Collor won widely , but what happened for that to happen?
Clearly, there was an edit of the recorded debate for what was broadcast the next day to the population and this edit was admitted in 2011 by Globo's production directors and they said the following in the confession of manipulation interview:
"I thought that Collor's fight with Lula in the debates was uneven, because Lula was the people and Collor was the authority, so we managed to take Collor's tie off, sweat a little with a 'little glycerin' and put all the folders that were there with alleged accusations against Lula - but the folders were entirely empty or with blank papers, all that debate was [produced] - not the content, the content was Collor's, but the informal part we are we did, we just didn't put a dandruff on him because he wouldn't let it"
In the end, with all these things Collor wins the elections with 53% of the votes in the second round, becoming the first democratically elected president after the end of the dictatorship
Collor plan and mismanagement
Fernando Collor de Mello then takes office on March 15, 1990 and the next day he announces an economic plan that would probably be the most tragic and worst economic plan ever made in the country's history, to fight the 82% monthly hyperinflation he and the government economic team proposed changing the name of the currency from Cruzado to Cruzeiro, freezing prices and looting all money from the savings account of the entire population with the exception of 1300 dollars promising to return the money to everyone in 18 months, the Plano Collor reduced inflation only in the first month, but then it got out of control again, some of the consequences of Plano Collor were the devaluation of the national industry that resulted in the sale of state-owned companies at a price below market value and the bankruptcy of investors, several companies went bankrupt, which contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate.
In addition, there was also the dismantling of railways and cuts in investment in infrastructure. In fact, many economists believe that Brazil went bankrupt. This is because credits have become more expensive and difficult to obtain.
Many people committed suicide because of this disastrous plan, people went bankrupt, purchasing power decreased enormously and managed to worsen hyperinflation, with 1993 having an accumulated annual inflation of humble 2477%.
PC Farias Scheme
Paulo Cesar Farias was an old acquaintance since the times when President Fernando Collor was mayor of Maceió, PC was a simple used car salesman known as Little Paul of the Oil and this friendship made him become the treasurer of the president's campaign and with the power he had in his hands, PC Farias allegedly manipulated contracts, appointing employees to create false documents and create phantom accounts where the money collected would go and would be the front man in various corruption schemes that came to be discovered and investigated. The PC scheme raised the equivalent of US$ 8 million from private entrepreneurs, equivalent to R$ 30 million in 2015, in two and a half years of the Collor government (1990-1992). In addition, the scheme, which had the direct involvement of the president, moved more than US$ 1 billion from the public coffers.
This scheme was started by Fernando Collor's brother, Pedro, because of a conflict of interests between the two by the media conglomerate they had in Alagoas, Pedro says everything in an interview with VEJA REVISTA, the same that supported the president from an early age in addition to saying that his brother was related to cocaine use in an interview, basically a tropical Cain and Abel.
PC Farias was found dead, along with his girlfriend Suzana Marcolino, on Guaxuma beach in 1996. Investigations by coroner Badan Palhares resulted in Suzana Marcolino killing PC Farias and then committing suicide. The case is officially considered only as a crime of passion, but for many doctors and coroners, the couple was murdered. Three years later, the former governor of Alagoas, Geraldo Bulhões, during the CPI on Drug Trafficking, stated that Badan Palhares would have received R$ 400 thousand from Augusto Farias, brother of Paulo César Farias, to defraud the report. The case was shelved without a concrete resolution, but for doctors and coroners involved in the investigation the couple was murdered.
In the end this case was shelved and no one will ever know the motivation of who and the reason for the death of PC and Suzana.
The last sighs of the Collor government
With all this economic turmoil and the countless scandals involved in the figure of Collor and his government, a parliamentary commission of inquiry was made asking for the impeachment of the president and it is quickly approved for a vote in congress and Collor makes his last speech asking for the support of the population. for them to demonstrate with the colors of the flag in the streets in their support, this speech bounced off him and hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets dressed in black supporting the impeachment of the president and in Congress on September 29, 1993, the impeachment was approved by 441 to 38 votes, Collor, like the coward that he was, resigned hours before so as not to lose his political rights and that's how this stain on the country's history ends and that's how a candidate is manufactured by the corrupt establishment.
Current days
As Charles De Gaulle supposedly said "Brazil is not a serious country" and it will never be for that reason Collor was not arrested nor lost his political rights, days after the impeachment Fernando went into "exile" in Miami for 9 years and in 2006 he would return to being elected senator for Alagoas and to this day he continues to earn millions at the expense of the people in the same position of senator, as a megalomaniac has already supported Lula in 2006, Dilma in 2010, Temer in 2016 and Bolsonaro in 2018, a physiological madness that could only come of Brazil and unfortunately it will continue to be so until the end of history.
Someone take me out of Latin America please, this is a call for help.
The story I will tell is of a typical banana republic in our dearest Latin America and we will see what happens when the media, determinism and influences from abroad create a political Frankenstein to prevent socialism in the US backyard.
Fernando Collor de Mello was born on August 12, 1949 in the city of Rio de Janeiro but spent most of his childhood and youth in Alagoas, to know about his life we will have to dissect his family, he was the son of Arnon de Mello, a journalist who became an influential caudillo in Alagoas and was appointed senator by the military dictatorship, known for having tried to shoot a political rival from his state Silvetre Péricles in full national plenary, in which case he ended up missing the shot and ended up killing an alternate congressman named José Kairala and because it was his last session in the senate, José took his children and wife to watch him, the poor man was not involved in their intrigue but ended up tragically passing away, and because Arnon was the owner of the largest newspaper and radio conglomerate in his state. and responsible for the retransmission of the largest TV station and the most influential and largest media conglomerate in the country in Alagoas: A Globo (keep this information well), Arnon was released by the justice system. a after 3 hours in prison and was soon acquitted by the same Globo with this pathetic note printed in the newspapers:
"Democracy, despite being the best of political regimes, leaves room, when the electorate is deceived or is not sufficiently enlightened, for the people of a single state – as is the case – to place a violent primary in the same legislative house. , like Mr. Silvestre Péricles, and an intellectual, like Mr. Arnon de Mello, bringing them together in the same sad episode, although they are so different in temperament, culture and education"
Fernando was also a grandson by maternal lineage of Lindolfo Collor, one of the coup leaders in 1930 and minister of popular labor for having been responsible for the consolidation of labor laws and with this information we know how politically influential his origins were and how he was the perfect recipe for another politician created on the basis of the old Brazilian patrimonialism, but before that I will speak specifically of Fernando's personal trajectory, he spent his youth studying sometimes in Maceió and sometimes in Brasília and graduated in economics at UFAL, but he did not go to work first hand in the economic area and with all effort(sic) was appointed director of his father's conglomerate, a position in which he remained until 1979, at the same time he married Lilibeth Monteiro, who was heiress of Grupo Monteiro Aranha, one of the largest investment business groups in Brazil, a marriage that it was a facade.
Beginning of political career and diffusion of pre-candidate
We saw how Fernando easily managed to gain economic and media influence regionally, but I did not speak when he began to enter politics, so because of his influence in local newspapers and because his family was powerful in the region, Fernando was appointed by the dictatorship as intervening mayor of Maceió, capital of Alagoas in 1979, he voted in favor of redemocratization and was elected governor in 1985, in the same year of the first indirect elections for president of Brazil after decades of military dictatorship and Tancredo Neves is elected, a centrist who was an important figure in the movement for the redemocratization of the country. country and a figure who represented to the people a hope for a better country, the problem is that he could not take office because of a generalized diverticulitis/infection and ended up dying and a new election this time direct would be planned for the year 1990.
Fernando as the power maniac that he was goes in 1987 to the headquarters of Editora Abril (media group financed by think-tanks of former members of the dictatorship) to talk about his power project with the CEOs and they like his project and give him a space to give an interview to Revista Veja, the most published magazine nationally, which at the time produced 800,000 copies a week, his project was to wipe out the public machine and all the inefficient employees that he pejoratively calls "marajás" but the magazine fell in love with it so much. from Fernando who began to publish articles that today would be extremely ridiculous about Fernando's appearance, athleticism and vanity, but in the past these articles were very important for the dissemination of the candidate treating him more like a socialite than a candidate for the presidency , one of them is as follows:
"Collor de Mello takes care of his physical form with twenty minutes of swimming and jogging a day in Lago Sul, in Brasília: I want to see the other candidates put up with this momentum".
"At 39, Collor is a candidate in good physical shape and very careful with his health. He sleeps a maximum of four hours a day – but fuels his body daily with three spoonfuls of guarana powder. Every morning, Collor runs 2000 meters along the avenues of Lago Sul, in one of the most valued areas of the federal capital, and exercises for fifteen minutes on an Apolo machine. Collor still finds time for twenty minutes of swimming a day"
"In his youth, in Brasília, Collor was successful among his friends because he was a black belt in karate".
"To keep in shape (he weighs 90 kilos, distributed in a height of 1.89 meters), Collor runs 25 minutes in the morning, when he has no early appointments, swims in his home pool or does gymnastics on weight machines"
Globo, manipulation and the electoral campaign
Globo, as I said, was and still is the largest television network in Brazil and has always had a very close relationship with the right, both during the dictatorship and after the end of it, and as Collor already had contacts at Globo through the retransmitter in Alagoas , he talks with a production director Alberico de Sousa Cruz and makes him appear in almost every story about problems in the country and talk about how his state government solved such problems, with Alagoas being in absolute misery in which 1000 125 children died before completing their first year of life, 42% of the state was unemployed and 70% were illiterate, basically TV Globo made Collor a recurring character as an example of an ideal politician, in addition to which Fernando took advantage of the time very well free electoral campaign in which his advertisements were very successful and in them he talked about the "fight against the maharajas", his adoption of the Christian faith, he personally attacked his opponents and talked about how he respected the savings account of the population unlike its opponents (REMEMBER THAT).
At the end of the first round, which had 22 CANDIDATES, I repeat 22 CANDIDATES, Collor was in first place and Lula, a workers' leader with a socialist bias, in second, thus taking the dispute to the decision in the second round and there was a debate between them on TV Globo. and everything was prepared to be a great debate, the first one after redemocratization, and there they were both and they confronted each other, in the studio at the end of the debate the majority present said that Lula won but the general public that watched on television said that Collor won widely , but what happened for that to happen?
Clearly, there was an edit of the recorded debate for what was broadcast the next day to the population and this edit was admitted in 2011 by Globo's production directors and they said the following in the confession of manipulation interview:
"I thought that Collor's fight with Lula in the debates was uneven, because Lula was the people and Collor was the authority, so we managed to take Collor's tie off, sweat a little with a 'little glycerin' and put all the folders that were there with alleged accusations against Lula - but the folders were entirely empty or with blank papers, all that debate was [produced] - not the content, the content was Collor's, but the informal part we are we did, we just didn't put a dandruff on him because he wouldn't let it"
In the end, with all these things Collor wins the elections with 53% of the votes in the second round, becoming the first democratically elected president after the end of the dictatorship
Collor plan and mismanagement
Fernando Collor de Mello then takes office on March 15, 1990 and the next day he announces an economic plan that would probably be the most tragic and worst economic plan ever made in the country's history, to fight the 82% monthly hyperinflation he and the government economic team proposed changing the name of the currency from Cruzado to Cruzeiro, freezing prices and looting all money from the savings account of the entire population with the exception of 1300 dollars promising to return the money to everyone in 18 months, the Plano Collor reduced inflation only in the first month, but then it got out of control again, some of the consequences of Plano Collor were the devaluation of the national industry that resulted in the sale of state-owned companies at a price below market value and the bankruptcy of investors, several companies went bankrupt, which contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate.
In addition, there was also the dismantling of railways and cuts in investment in infrastructure. In fact, many economists believe that Brazil went bankrupt. This is because credits have become more expensive and difficult to obtain.
Many people committed suicide because of this disastrous plan, people went bankrupt, purchasing power decreased enormously and managed to worsen hyperinflation, with 1993 having an accumulated annual inflation of humble 2477%.
PC Farias Scheme
Paulo Cesar Farias was an old acquaintance since the times when President Fernando Collor was mayor of Maceió, PC was a simple used car salesman known as Little Paul of the Oil and this friendship made him become the treasurer of the president's campaign and with the power he had in his hands, PC Farias allegedly manipulated contracts, appointing employees to create false documents and create phantom accounts where the money collected would go and would be the front man in various corruption schemes that came to be discovered and investigated. The PC scheme raised the equivalent of US$ 8 million from private entrepreneurs, equivalent to R$ 30 million in 2015, in two and a half years of the Collor government (1990-1992). In addition, the scheme, which had the direct involvement of the president, moved more than US$ 1 billion from the public coffers.
This scheme was started by Fernando Collor's brother, Pedro, because of a conflict of interests between the two by the media conglomerate they had in Alagoas, Pedro says everything in an interview with VEJA REVISTA, the same that supported the president from an early age in addition to saying that his brother was related to cocaine use in an interview, basically a tropical Cain and Abel.
PC Farias was found dead, along with his girlfriend Suzana Marcolino, on Guaxuma beach in 1996. Investigations by coroner Badan Palhares resulted in Suzana Marcolino killing PC Farias and then committing suicide. The case is officially considered only as a crime of passion, but for many doctors and coroners, the couple was murdered. Three years later, the former governor of Alagoas, Geraldo Bulhões, during the CPI on Drug Trafficking, stated that Badan Palhares would have received R$ 400 thousand from Augusto Farias, brother of Paulo César Farias, to defraud the report. The case was shelved without a concrete resolution, but for doctors and coroners involved in the investigation the couple was murdered.
In the end this case was shelved and no one will ever know the motivation of who and the reason for the death of PC and Suzana.
The last sighs of the Collor government
With all this economic turmoil and the countless scandals involved in the figure of Collor and his government, a parliamentary commission of inquiry was made asking for the impeachment of the president and it is quickly approved for a vote in congress and Collor makes his last speech asking for the support of the population. for them to demonstrate with the colors of the flag in the streets in their support, this speech bounced off him and hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets dressed in black supporting the impeachment of the president and in Congress on September 29, 1993, the impeachment was approved by 441 to 38 votes, Collor, like the coward that he was, resigned hours before so as not to lose his political rights and that's how this stain on the country's history ends and that's how a candidate is manufactured by the corrupt establishment.
Current days
As Charles De Gaulle supposedly said "Brazil is not a serious country" and it will never be for that reason Collor was not arrested nor lost his political rights, days after the impeachment Fernando went into "exile" in Miami for 9 years and in 2006 he would return to being elected senator for Alagoas and to this day he continues to earn millions at the expense of the people in the same position of senator, as a megalomaniac has already supported Lula in 2006, Dilma in 2010, Temer in 2016 and Bolsonaro in 2018, a physiological madness that could only come of Brazil and unfortunately it will continue to be so until the end of history.
Someone take me out of Latin America please, this is a call for help.
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