From 1994 to 2002,
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) was the president of Brazil, supported by an heterodox alliance of his supposedly "center-left" party (Social Democratic Party, PSDB) with two right-wing parties, the Liberal Front Party (PFL) and the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB), and the centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB). Nicknamed "the prince of sociologists", FHC is widely regarded in the local media as the savior of the country, due to the creation of
Plano Real, being also praised by his alleged competence, democratic spirit and ethical behavior.
In the real world, however, Cardoso was just one of the most prominent members of a club of Latin American puppet presidents that had no other purpose rather than adjusting their countries and submitting their peoples to the enslaving agenda of stateless neocons and criminal banksters based in the Wall Street / City of London real axis of evil: the
Washington Consensus. As an Academic, Cardoso is known for formulating his own version of the
dependency theory, in which he defends the idea that the best way for economic and social development of Latin America is becoming used to the idea of being dependent of the developed world and vehemently cooperating with their agenda in order to get more generous alms. As a politician, he's known for his disgraceful government. Interest rates of almost 50% (you can imagine how L-O-V-E-D he is by worldwide bankers), unemployment rate reaching 25% of the people, dozens of corruption scandals envolving members of his government (4 against Cardoso himself), etc. Among these 4 inquiries involving him, the most important is probably the bribe of congressmen to aprove the Constitutional amendment that allowed his reelection, which was proven true, but left unpunished (interestingly enough, his party always criticizes Chávez for doing in Venezuela the same thing that they did in Brazil - with one difference: Chávez didn't need to buy votes from congressmen to change the Constitution and get reelected). He did such a lousy government that he became responsible for doing something that everybody in Brazil thought to be impossible: Lula, the first Brazilian president from the working class, being elected.
Mexico's version of Cardoso, president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who sold his country to Carlos Slim, had to run away from his homeland to New York in a private jet to avoid his angry fellowmen. Gonzalo Sánchez Lozada, the Bolivian president that privatized the rain, had to escape his country hearing the shouts of "assassin" coming from the masses. Alberto Fujimori, from Peru, faced jail threats for the admited "briberization", as Joseph Stiglitz said. In Argentina, the name "Carlos Meném" is not pronounced for the popular belief that it brings bad luck. But, in opposition to his fellow neocon puppet presidents taht ruled the Latin American countries in the same period, Cardoso, instead of being in jail, is treated by the Brazilian press as our "greatest statesman ever". As impossible as it seems, nothing was ever published in Brazil about the real nature of his "government".
Until today.
A brave journalist named Amaury Ribeiro Jr. has finnally published his long-waited book:
A Privataria Tucana ("privataria" being a neologism combining the words "privatização" (privatization) and "pirataria" (piracy) and "tucana" (toucan) a popular nickname of Cardoso's party, PSDB]).
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The book took 12 years to be finished and is an impressive x-ray of Cardoso's administration and looting of Brazilian state companies disguised of "privatization". It's really frightening. The book explains some of the 626 criminal inquiries opened against members of Cardoso's government, ALL of them being swept under the carpet without any formal investigation. It explains why Cardoso had 95 ministers in 96 months of government and where the money from the "privatizations" went to. Money laundering, bribes, illegal lobby, buying of votes, involving top officials and figures of PSDB, mainly the former governor of São Paulo, José Serra, defeated by Dilma Rousseff in the 2010 presidential election.
According to the book, between 1994 and 1998, friends and relatives of José Serra, including his daughter, Verônica Serra, his son-in-law, Alexandre Bourgeois, and the husband of one of his cousins, Gregório Marín Preciado, were operating a complex scheme of money laundering and misappropriation of hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds, diverted to offshores and fiscal paradises. The mastermind behind this unprecedented corruption was the economist Ricardo Sérgio de Oliveira, one of the former directors of the public-owned Bank of Brazil.
The book also reveals that a company owned by Verônica Serra, named "Decidir.com" was investigated by the Federal Police for illegal breach of financial secrecy of 60 million (I said SIXTY MILLION) Brazilian citizens. The police official responsible for the investigation received threats by top officials of the government and the case was quickly swept under the carpet without being noticed in the press.
There are also new interesting facts about corruption scandals that had, at some point, become partially known, for example, the 26 billion reais from public funds that Cardoso donated to private banks in 1995, the bribe scandals involving Cardosos' ministers and the American company Raytheon during the creation of the the
Amazon Surveillance System, the foreknowledge by top officials of the upcoming financial crisis in Brazil's bank system in 1999 that was ignored in order to benefit lobbysts of the government, etc.
Of course, there was no mention to the publishing of the book in the corporate press. All the big four media groups that control the Brazilian corporate press have carnal relations with PSDB and are largely financed through public funds granted by the government of São Paulo and the three Southern States that they have been controling for almost 2 decades.
Brazilian private media receives 200 million dollars a year of public money by the PSDB state governments. Members of the PSDB, media barons and judges are already trying to obtain permission to censor the book. It's quite possible that they succeed.
Meanwhile,
the press is trying to make the 8th minister of Dilma Rousseff fall: Fernando Pimentel, the trade and industry minister. The accusation? Earning money (1 million reais) as a private consultant during the time he
did not work for the government. The
26 billion reais looted from public funds by Cardoso? Not a word about it.