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Brazilian Censorship on Free Press – A Warning
por (Olavo de Carvalho) •
Friday, Jul. 08, 2005 at 3:57 AM
Bad news from Brazil. The Brazilian newspaper O Globo fired journalist and philosopher Olavo de Carvalho last Monday. This is not just a personal bad luck, but a political fact.
Brazilian Censorship on Free Press – A Warning
Dear Friends,
Bad news from Brazil. The Brazilian newspaper O Globo fired me last Monday. This is not just a personal bad luck, but a political fact. For years I had been denouncing by my weekly column the activities of the São Paulo Forum, while the remaining pages of the newspaper (and of all other Brazilian newspapers) kept complete silence on the subject or denied overtly the existence of the Forum or at least its political importance, so that many readers were induced to see me as a kind of lunatic conspiracy theorist. Denial became increasingly difficult during the last weeks, inasmuch as the 12th Assembly of the Forum was gathered in São Paulo from 1st to 4th July. While it was running in Bogota or Havana, it was easy to hide it from Brazilian eyes, but São Paulo is the largest Brazilian city. Moreover, one of the main topics of the discussions was the urgent need for the Latin-American left to give public support to Lula and the Workers Party (PT) against the rising tide of criminal charges, including not only the endemic corruption inside government but even murder accusations (Celso Daniel, the socialist-PT mayor of the industrial town of Santo André, was murdered some years ago and his brother told Daniel was killed by people from his own party whose involvement in corruption he was investigating; later, SIX witnesses of the trial were also murdered by unknown shooters).
Well, last week Mr. Merval Pereira, a member of O Globo’s Board of Directors, wrote himself an article where for the first time after fifteen years of silence O Globo admitted frankly the existence and the political relevance of the São Paulo Forum. Four days later I was fired.
According to representative Roberto Jefferson (the main witness in present investigations about PT corruption), Mr. José Dirceu, the former number one man in Lula government and now a very important leader in the House of Representatives, boasted often of having complete hold over O Globo’s Board of Directors, owing to the huge debt the company had to state banks.
Hundreds of letters protesting against my dismissal are being sent to O Globo (I have copies of many of them), but none of them was or will be published and this is evidence enough of the deliberated occultation of the facts.
With my dismissal, Brazilian big media becomes at last the conservative-free ambience it aimed to be.
Best wishes,
Olavo de Carvalho
Richmond, VA, July 6th, 2005
Português: http://www.olavodecarvalho.org
Español: http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/espanol
English: http://www.olavodecarvalho.org/english
MSM
Por sn -
Friday, Jul. 08, 2005 at 4:45 AM
MÍDIA SEM MÁSCARA (Maskless Media)
English: http://www.midiasemmascara.org/en
Portuguese: http://www.midiasemmascara.org