two impeachments in 24 years, five is quite a portfolio, for better or for worse.
It says a lot about the conduct of the authorities, but it also says a lot about the national history of tolerance towards the powerful, not only in politics strictly speaking, but also in professional activity.
Until the beginning of the 1990s, they were treated as celebrities, financiers of electoral campaigns on the open scene.
It took the action of a young substitute judge, Denise Frossard, for 14 of them — including Castor de Andrade, the most celebrated — to be arrested. To this day, his heirs are still involved in crimes, but they are not viewed with the complacency they once were. Date from the same time
From the turn of the century onwards, we would see a series of scandals that resulted in the arrests of party leaders and three former presidents, the dismantling of corruption schemes, and another impeachment for administrative irresponsibility. So far, the conviction of military personnel and for attempted coup d’état.
This significant number of illegal occurrences uncovered, in a short space of time, could place Brazil in the position of a paradise of illegalities. Cancellation of punishments would also authorize the conclusion that this is it, the country has no way out. It would, however, be a hasty read.
Defects rooted in decades — centuries, perhaps — of excesses, bad habits and a culture of reverence for those in charge cannot be corrected overnight. It takes time and involves discouraging setbacks.
The good news is that the explosion of malfeasance, and the implosion of some of them, coincides with the resumption of the democratic regime. The validity of full legality requires that the autonomy of perpetrators of criminal actions, of any nature, be prohibited in the name of preserving the freedom of the entire nation.
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