On Saturday (25), in the afternoon, Corinthians beat Vitória, moved away from the risk of falling and relieved Santos.
At night, Flamengo managed to lose to Fortaleza and cheer up Palmeiras, who were weakened by the Quito disaster.
Also at night, São Paulo beat Bahia well.
More: Ponte Preta won its first national cup in 125 years of history, being champion of Series C.
Furthermore, this Sunday, João Fonseca was champion at the ATP 500 in Basel, Switzerland.
Agree, the rare reader, that there was no shortage of topics for the column, that of the five events mentioned it saw two, which involved the suffering and robbed, by the top hats, Corinthians, and that of the magnificent young Brazilian tennis player.
The red and black defeat and the tricolor victory competed with the most important thing that happened in Brazilian life over the weekend, even more important than the meeting between Lula and Trump.
Because on Saturday night, at the Sé Cathedral, Vladimir Herzog’s two orphans, Ivo and André, returned to the stage where, in 1975, the ecumenical service that marked the beginning of Brazil’s redemocratization took place. They were accompanied by Vlado’s grandson and granddaughters, whom the new inter-religious act paid homage to.
Unlike half a century ago, the State was present, with the acting president, Geraldo Alckmin, author of a sober speech, in his style, and firm: “Not to forget, never to be repeated”.
Before him, Rabbi Uri Lam also spoke with courage and pride, a worthy representative of Henry Sobel.
Vlado, as we know, was Jewish, but neither Conib nor the Israeli Federation of São Paulo sent representatives to the event, just as the absences of the governor of São Paulo and the mayor of the capital were eloquent, as if they did not fit into a ceremony against torture, for democracy and for peace.
But there were, in everyone’s memory, the gigantic figures of the brave Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, the Presbyterian reverend Jaime Wrigth and the then president of the Union of Journalists in the State of São Paulo, Audálio Dantas, movingly given a standing ovation by the packed cathedral.
Everything interspersed with the beautiful singing of the Martin Luther King Choir, between Marias and Clarices, heroines of Brazil.
In fact, the president of the Superior Military Court, Maria Elisabeth Rocha, was also present at Marias, who in a short and chilling speech apologized for all the mistakes made by the court that now presides against those who were tortured and killed by the dictatorship installed in 1964.
Deliriously applauded, as was judge Márcio José de Moraes, who, back in 1987, had the courage to condemn the Union for Vlado’s murder.
The letter to the magistrate, from Dona Zora, Herzog’s mother, in the voice of Fernanda Montenegro, in gratitude for the historic sentence, made many of those present cry.
Anyone who was in the cathedral 50 years ago and returned now could not help but compare the climate of fear then with that of now. Despite everything, we move forward.
And we have advanced to the point of preventing an amnesty for those who, on January 8, 2023, wanted to repeat the barbarity installed in 1964, something that, also in unison, in the act led by the Bishop of São Paulo, Odilo Scherer, became clear.
In short, a civic and democratic victory.
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