SECOND OF TWO PARTS
Let's defend the rule of the Law *************************************** I hope that nobody be upset at reading the invitation that Emilio made to me: "I dare to invite you to help me to defend the State of the Right" (...)
It is not a right-wing state! "State of the right" is a literal translation of "estado de direito" (estado de derecho, état de droit, stato di diritto) that means the state based upon the Law, the rule of the Law, in the Latin languages. It is often qualified by the expression "democratic", since a fascist state also is formally ruled by the Law.
I think that it is so much necessary to defend the democratic rule of Law, however a limited bourgeois one, that I think that it will be well served by putting immediately the tyrant-model in the jail wherever possible. In Spain? ¡Arriba España!
The Bolsonaro syndrome ****************************** Thomas Kruse also has already said something about the "collateral damage" caused by the Pinochet affair in Bolivia. Outside Chile it is spreading swiftly what I call "the Bolsonaro syndrome".
In Brazil, for instance, the main representative of the military right wing in the national parliament, retired captain Jair Bolsonaro, has become hysterical about the detention of Pinochert and even asked for the trial of the king of Spain ---who was just now visiting Brazil, by the way!--- to answer for the massacre of Amerindians in the continent during the colonial times... Nevertheless, this guy has been criticizing the demarcation of Amerindian reservoirs (though there are very few surviving Amerindians in Brazil) and promised a massacre of leftists if someday the Workers Party arrives to the Presidency (an interview given in May, 1997, to one of the most important national weekly magazines).
They are AFRAID rather than indignant, that is why they are growing pretty mad...
The civilian version of the Bolsonaro syndrome was shown in the incredible eagerness of the junior Frei, the president of Chile, in asking several South American presidents, who met in Brasília together with king Juan Carlos from Spain, to join in a common declaration urging the immediate and unconditional release of the tyrant in the name of the Chilean sovereignty. He was so in a hurry that he dared the diplomatic blunder of proposing it in front of the king himself. Later the Chilean government denied such an awkward move.
Frei's shameful initiative received a rotund "NO" from the host, the Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who lived as an exile in Chile before becoming a neoliberal. A few hours after the gaffe, the Health Minister José Serra, a close ally of Cardoso and his disguised speaker, who also was an exile in Chile during the Allende's term, conceded a blatant interview in which he warmly supported the prison and judgement of Pinochet.
Soy loco por ti, América, soy loco por ti, mi amor ********************************************************** "I'm crazy about you, America // I'm crazy about you, my love" too, but Emilio must disclose what this means. He said: "Remember that it can still exists inside your soul a poetic warrior who said: Soy loco por ti , America."
It is the title of a 1968 hit song made by Caetano Veloso, a very talented Brazilian musician who had to flee for his life to England in 1969. The letter of the song is written at the same time in Spanish and Portuguese (twin languages) and one of its verses says in this hybrid tongue: "I'm looking for the morning that sings the name of the dead man" ("espero o amanhã que cante el nombre del hombre muerto").
Everybody knew that the "dead man" who would be praised in some future morning (after the present darkness) was Che Guevara, except the stupid censorship of the military regime, that was unable to grasp the subtle metaphors of this beautiful song. So, the song was freely played along the whole year (Che had died in the year before).
The whole song also contains an occult reference to Fidel Castro's old tactics to launch the socialist revolution all over the continent ("foquismo", the insurrection spreading from a "foco", i.e, a focus, a spot). The song also stems in the rather romantic, innocent and vague pan-Latin American ideology of "patria grande" (the great fatherland), i.e, the whole Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking continent, which is sometimes extended to the Iberian peninsula too.
Emilio, awake! Foquismo days are gone; "patria grande" isn't a political concept but a romantic fancy; and poetry, however the best one, may not overplace the "concrete analysis of a concrete situation", to quote Lenin. I still think that a good way to be crazy about America is not to lose the opportunity to inflict a blow on the military terrorism by carrying the cruel tyrant before a court and by keeping him safely locked.
The old rebel aesthete Caetano Veloso is now a partisan of neoliberalism, but nonetheless he still is a great artist. Honoré de Balzac also was so, and Marx liked him a lot...
I'll be back after November, 16 !
In solidarity, Roberto
1848 / 1998: Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch !
Paix entre nous, guerre aux tyrans (....) Ouvriers, paysans, nous sommes Le grand PARTI DES TRAVAILLEURS. (L' Internationale)
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Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 03:26:02 -0200 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: emilio <emilio at openlink.com.br> Subject: Re: Pinochet, get back to HELL !
At 02:09 31/10/98 -0200, you wrote:
>I deeply regret the messages sent by Emílio (my Workers Party mate) which,
>in very practical terms, mean that he agrees with the impunity of the bloody
>tyrant, among other unpleasant implications for a Marxist (the thread is
>reproduced below).
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Roberto
Unfortunately we are in antagonistic positions about Pinochet's arrested in London.
I have a deeply lament for your position of defense such new liberal concept of modern inquisition only for criminal politicians from third-world countries.
The postulates and roots of the Law is fully being attacked by this political marketing's up-do-date *European Liberals*
Both of us accompanied the negotiation process the transition to Democracy in Chile
The exit of the military from the power and return to democratic normality was very difficult and you have plenty knowledge of the facts how fragile is the today political situation in Chile.
The Chilean democracy is fragile as a crystal.
Its scares me a lot to see the olds brucutus-cars throw jets of water against the people and formed shock troop soldiers marching against the demonstrators.
It scares me a lot to see olds scenes of people being used as political weapon, flags burning in public square and all the elements of our olds nightmares.
The Judge Baltasar Garçon threw in target he saw and it got in what he didn't see.
Acting a simple generating fact of solemnity-promotion it shoted the extradition request and now he does's realise the danger with his flighty act.
The Spain Supreme Court could also authorize the Judge Baltasar Garcon to re-open the process against the former Spanish first-minister Felipe Gonzeles about his crimes against the Basque's independence fithters.
The concept of the Amnesty's Law is being triturated by the liberal new modern wave came from the first-world.
Until the Royal Court of Justice are reaching to that conclusion.
AMNESTY is an act of the Legislative Power that declares impunished actions practiced by political reasons, it annuls condemnations and it suspends persecutions diligences .
While a grace or a pardon, granted by the Head of State, suppress the execution of the feather, without suppressing the effects of the condemnation, the AMNESTY annuls the punishment and the fact and cause.
I recognize to be more comfortable to anybory to defend powerful English New System than the stability of the Chilean people, although I am still with the principals that conducted the amnesty negotiation practices in our country and amnesties, it will be always valid for both sides.
Do they want to judge Pinochet?
Why not in Haia Court, in Holland?
I am not worried with Pinochet's destiny but with the consequences against the Chilean people
I appeal for your great sense of justice, for your latinity, for your dignity and intelligence which I learned to appreciate.
I dare to invite you help me to defend the State of the Right and not to succumb to the disgusting nowsday fashion liberalism.
Remember that can still exist inside your soul a poetic warrior who said: *Soy loco por ti , America *
emilio