Solon Brochado: The opposition seems to have received the Veja magazine piece, detailing how Cuba allegedly invested US$ 3 million in Lula’s campaign, as political currency. As PT congressmen lean toward not asking for Eduardo Azeredo’s annulment, the opposition is asking for a thorough investigation on the Lula-Fidel relation, but is treating the issue with caution.
Meanwhile, with the Mensalão’s CPI coming to its grand finale, the media hasn’t paid much attention to the Castrodollars case. But this op-ed by Gilberto Dimenstein hits all the right spots on the troubling historical connections between the Workers’ Party and Fidel’s Cuba.
Lula, PT and the Cuba money
The Veja piece gives details on how Cuba would have sent money to the PT, allegedly destined to Lula’s campaign. There are no proofs, however — but the amount of clues suggests an investigation as inevitable, starting with the witnesses. What doesn’t need investigation is the Lula, PT and Fidel relation, which is grave. You need only to read the newspapers’ archives.
Grave, in this case, is the fact that the PT, born in the resistance to the military regime, so shamelessly protects the Cuban regime, which arrests and persecutes political opponents, doesn’t allow free press, party organization, and so on. That shows at least a division inside the PT on democracy’s rules.
This reverence to Cuba sets the suspicion that, behind a series of attempts — all killed at its birth — at limiting the autonomy of the press, of cultural activity, of the universities and the Public Ministry, is inspired in a State capable of controlling society.
I don’t believe, in any way, that the PT dreams of a dictatorship, even because it would be impossible. But it reveals a mental mess and, like it or not, feed the suspicion that, beyond the ideological identification, there may be more in its relations with Cuba.
