On Sunday, reporter Vinícius Valfré revealed that he had imposed a deal on authorization for the operation of betting houses in Brazil. The gag even excluded the possibility of releasing only sections that did not contain sensitive information.
On Monday, the minister reported that the measure had been revoked and a working group would be created to examine the case, providing “broad transparency” to the processes. Okay, but gag, like the tortoise, doesn’t climb trees, someone put it there. To serve what purpose? It remains to be seen.
There are around 25 thousand documents, many of them trivial. In the batch, there are some technical notes produced by the government machine. Reading them may shed some light on the release of these bookmakers.
The highest authority that dealt with the matter was and he is against it, but, as he already explained, “he does not own Brazil”.
In an election year in which the Brazilian government clashes with the American government over the classification of the Red Command and the First Command of the Capital, there could be no better gift for the government’s opponents than secrecy in this area.
The government pretends that it is against gambling, but since 2025 it has granted 85 licenses, totaling 187 sites authorized to operate electronic betting, those that Lula condemns.
in the first four months of this year.
A similar herbal equivalent is twice the value of bets in the same period last year. What’s more: the government raised an amount close to what it earned from tobacco and agribusiness from betting.
There are betting houses that follow the rules and there are branches of organized crime infiltrated in gambling. When the Ministry of Finance tried to impose a hundred-year secrecy on the concession sales processes, who would win? Those who are contaminated by crime, because they hate talking about their business.
The gambling gate was opened, which had amazing plans for the construction of casinos (you can call them resorts). One of them could be located inside Guanabara Bay. Lula 3.0, driven by the minister’s fundraising fever, opened up the sale of grants and in three years has already raised something like R$30 billion from the bets. To see the size of this money, just remember that the late “blouse tax” generated discomfort and unpopularity, generating just R$8.2 billion. Gambling has a certain popularity (for those who win) and its consequences go to doctors’ offices and the cruel statistics of increasing family debt.
Secrecy of up to a hundred years involving licenses for the operation of gaming houses could have some justifications, but dryly, with lame explanations, it left a burning smell in the gag.
By Sunday it was necessary to end the century-old embargo. Once deactivated, we need to know who put it there, because others will come. The world of gambling has news to give and sell.
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