Want to Defeat Me? Do it at the Voting Booth, Lula Writes

[Judi Lynn]

07/19/2018 - 11H25

LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA
Former President of the Brazilian Republic (2003-2010)

I have been imprisoned for more than 100 days. On the outside, unemployment is increasing, more and more fathers and mothers are finding themselves unable to support their families, and an absurd pricing policy for fuel caused a truckers' strike that provoked shortages in Brazilian cities. The number of people burned from cooking with alcohol is increasing due to the high price of natural cooking gas for poor families. Poverty is increasing and the economic outlook for the country worsens every day.

Brazilian children are being arrested and separated from their families in the United States, while our Government humiliates itself for the American Vice-President. Embraer, a high-technology company built over many decades, is sold for such a low price that even the market itself is shocked.

An illegitimate government is rushing through its last months in office trying to liquidate as much national patrimony and sovereignty as it possibly can - pre-salt oil reserves, natural gas pipelines, energy distribution companies, petrochemical companies -, beyond opening up the Amazon to foreign troops. While hunger is returning, and vaccinations for children have fallen, part of the Judiciary is fighting to maintain its own living allowance and, who knows, even manage to get a salary increase.

Last week, court Justice Carolina Lebbos decided that I cannot give interviews or record videos as a pre-candidate for the Workers Party (PT), the largest party in this country, which has selected me as their candidate for the Presidency. Apparently, incarcerating me isn't enough. They want to shut me up as well.

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