The deputy said that newspapers have a “long history of surrender and subservience to foreign interests”
The president of the PT and federal deputy, Gleisi Hoffmann, criticized this Sunday (21 January 2024) journalistic outlets for their publications on the resumption of the Abreu e Lima refinery. The deputy's publication on your profile on X (formerly Twitter) endorses a post also made this Sunday by the minister of the Social Communication Secretariat of the Palácio do Planalto, Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS).
The president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) participated last Thursday (January 18, 2024) in a ceremony promoted by Petrobras for the resumption of investments in Rnest (Abreu e Lima Refinery) in Ipojuca (PE), which has already been the target of misappropriation of resources revealed by Car wash. After the event, media outlets published again about Lava Jato.
“Everything that happened in this country was a collusion between some judges from that country and some prosecutors from that country subordinate to the United States Department of Justice, who never accepted Brazil having a company like Petrobras”stated the Chief Executive at the event.
The agreement between Petrobras and judges and prosecutors with the US Department of Justice, signed in 2018, was republished. In the document, the state-owned company recognizes all the wrongdoings committed and takes responsibility for what happened. In order for the investigations to be closed, the Brazilian company agreed to pay US$853.2 million (around R$4.2 billion in January 2024 values).
This one Power360 has the most complete collection of videos with statements from businesspeople and politicians about acts of corruption investigated by Lava Jato. Because of Lula's statement, the material was republished so that readers could compare what the president said with what had been declared by Lava Jato whistleblowers and defendants – many of whom confessed to crimes and agreed to sign agreements to return money.
In his publication in X, Gleisi mentions the newspapers Folha de S.Paulo, The globe It is The state of Sao Paulo which, according to her, have in common a “long trajectory of surrender and subservience to foreign interests”. He states that this is the fact that “explains his angry editorials.”
Then, it lists moments in the history of Brazil since 1953 in which these vehicles would have acted in a combined manner.
According to Gleisi, the 3 newspapers “defended” It is “applauded” the privatizations of CSN (Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional), from OKfrom the BR Distribuidora (now Vibra Energia) and Eletrobras. Also “they celebrated the dollarization of fuel prices and the reduction of Petrobras to a mere oil explorer”.
The deputy also stated that the newspapers were “accomplices” in Sergio Moro (União Brasil-PR), “which destroyed the Brazilian engineering, oil and gas industry”.
Read Gleisi’s full post:
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