The Fall of the Last Caudillo

The Fall of the Last Caudillo

By: Erreh Svaia

"In Brazil, when a poor man steals, he goes to jail, when a rich one steals, he becomes a minister..."
Lula Da Silva

Lula Da Silva, the "moderate" disciple of leftist long time Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (keep in mind that Venezuela ex-president, the defunct Hugo Chávez, was the extremist one), was twice time elected president, for eight years Da Silva ruled Brazil using the Workers Party, one of the biggest political parties in Latin America as his platform for seizing power, yes, Lula was elected in a democratic way, Lula became a national hero, the most beloved political character in the South American nation, under Lula's guidance Brazil made a big commercial relationship with China, and as oil prices soared high, gave the world the impression of a country that was living the ai called third world and quickly becoming a world power, it was the illusion of the BRICS, nations who took advantages of the booming oil market, money came easily, a lot of this was spent in social subsidies, but ambition also soared high within Lula's government, as directors at Brazil energy giant Petrobras started committing acts of corruption, accepting bribes and money laundry among other felonies.

Lula ended his two presidential periods and left the government as a hero, but Lula and the Workers Party had a plan, it wasn't so easily considering Brazil's democratic system, to keep power permanently, it couldn't happen the Castro or Chávez style, so Lula used his influence, the political power of his Party, and the subsidiary system that created artificial dependency among the poor people in the country to impulse his successor, Dilma Rousseff a woman with a guerrilla past, Dilma won the elections easily, but Lula's prosperity theater started to come down, as population started to develop, new needs started to develop too, and it was quickly shown that all the bonanza of the past years was a money made illusion, highly uncontrolled inflation, economy decrease, non-qualified schools, no job creation, and the end of subsidies started to reveal a true scenario, and social unrest started to become a constant, two evil planned populist policies were set in motion, the visit of recently elected South American Pope Francis, and the realization of a World Soccer Cup, call it "panis et circenses" or bread and circus, or perhaps pure opium for the masses, whatever you want to call it, it helped Dilma to win again the elections for a second term, but the momentum, as even Olympics were set to be released, wasn't enough, and as more corruption cases started to appear, and members of Dilma's staff started to be arrested and convicted, after the fall of the oil prices, Venezuela's and Brazil's political influence started to disappear from the rest of the continent, one by one the Foro de Sao Paulo populist governments started to lose the power, leaving Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro, and Rousseff isolated, accusations reached Lula, who afraid of been prosecuted devised a plan to get back for another presidential period, Lula's and the Workers Party was to sacrifice Dilma, but social pressure became unbearable, and in a poorly planned strategy, Lula accepted Dilma's invitation to collaborate as Minister in her administration, a plan whose real intention might be giving Lula political immunity, while at the same time starts to dismantle Brazil's presidential system, leaving Rousseff as a mere ornament and putting power directly on Lula's hands once again.

Time has revealed Lula's plan and Brazil's role within the Foro de Sao Paulo evil scheme, devised by Fidel Castro and Da Silva in order to create a sort of union of socialist republics in America, a plan that sold Latin America's future to China, and used oil prices to create the illusion that the present and the future were bright, now, as Dilma's future is in a fragile stage, and Lula's reputation is breaking apart, the future is uncertain for the Latin American giant, obviously the time of the left wing in Brazil is over, and the winds of change are blowing hard on Lula's populist dream.