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CARTA ABERTA AO SENADOR E CANDIDATO À PRESIDÊNCIA DA REPÚBLICA, AÉCIO NEVES DA CUNHA e Florentino Cardoso Presidente da AMB Vota em Aécio
CARTA ABERTA AO SENADOR E CANDIDATO À PRESIDÊNCIA
DA REPÚBLICA, AÉCIO NEVES DA CUNHA
Exmo.Sr.Senador Aécio Neves,
Ao
cumprimentá-lo pela passagem para o segundo turno das eleições venho,
representando os 14.000 membros do Grupo de Facebook Inglourious Doctor,
declarar abertamente nosso apoio ao senhor numa campanha em que terá como adversário
o “retrato do mal em si”.
Sabemos,
senador Aécio, que muito mais do que o cargo para presidente, é o futuro das
pessoas de bem que agora se encontra em jogo no Brasil. Desde 2003 estamos
convivendo com os apóstolos da liberação das drogas, dos acordos com o
narcotráfico, do aborto, do casamento gay e do alinhamento internacional com
forças genocidas como a Al Qaeda, o Regime da Coréia do Norte, da China e do
Estado Islâmico do Iraque e da Síria. Todas essas pessoas se reúnem sob a sigla
PT (Partido dos Trabalhadores) – a mais corrupta, assassina, e estelionatária
organização da história política brasileira que, sob as ordens do Foro de São
Paulo, nos quer levar em direção ao regime cubano.
Senhor
senador, há 20 anos sou médico, vi minha profissão ser destruída por colegas
petistas que não tiveram dúvida em jogar nossa história na lata de lixo e pago
hoje pessoalmente o preço de enfrentar essa gente aqui em Porto Alegre. Desde
2013 venho denuciando a farsa do Programa Mais Médicos e eu o tenho feito através
do Blog Ataque Aberto, em artigos na Revista VEJA, no próprio grupo de facebook
que acima mencionei, na primeira web radio conservadora do Brasil – a Rádio Vox
– e na minha atividade diária. Devo dizer ao senhor que há anos venho anulando
meu voto mas que, devido à gravidade do panorama político, não tenho dúvidas
agora em oferecê-lo ao senhor no segundo turno como já o fiz no primeiro.
Jamais fui filiado a partido político algum e longe estou de aceitar as teses
do PSDB bem como sua visão de poder como um todo, mas nada me resta a fazer
senão subscrevê-los no sentindo de evitar a permanência no poder dos marginais
petistas que estão destruindo nossa nação. Comigo estão mais de 14.000
brasileiros que, comungando da mesma posição, acreditam na necessidade urgente
de varrer do poder as forças que nos levam no caminho de uma ruptura
constitucional completa, de uma crise econômica sem precedentes e de uma
falência das nossas instituições. Jamais em toda minha vida escrevi nada em
benefício de político algum. Abro agora essa exceção, digna de mais um entre
tantos milhões de brasileiros desesperados com o futuro que espera seus filhos,
e despeço-me desejando ao senhor nossos melhores votos e a esperança da justa
vitória.
Cordiais Saudações,
Dr.Milton Simon Pires – CREMERS 20958
Porto Alegre, 5 de outubro de 2014.
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August 10, 2014
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Brazil’s
Petrobras: Tarred by corruption
By Joe Leahy
and Samantha Pearson
An investigation into the state oil company
has tarnished political reputations
After years of
allegedly secret dealings, the men at the centre of what is potentially
Brazil’s biggest corruption case made a careless mistake.
In May 2013,
convicted black market money dealer Alberto Youssef bought through third
parties a luxury car for his friend and alleged accomplice, Paulo Roberto
Costa, a former executive at state-oil company Petrobras.
But while
negotiating the purchase of the R$250,000 ($110,000) Range Rover Evoque in São
Paulo, they put their names together on a seemingly harmless document: a proof
of address. It was the only occasion in the mountains of police investigation
documents seen by the Financial Times they voluntarily appeared together.
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Federal police swooped. They raided the home of Mr Costa, confiscating
the Evoque and more than half a million dollars of cash. Prosecutors allege
that the wider extent of corruption that affects Petrobras, including bribes
and underhand political donations, amounts to more than R$1bn in inflated contracts. In the process, the police helped throw
open Brazil’s October election, turning it from what looked like a one-horse
race for President Dilma Rousseff to the closest contest in recent
history. As the former chairwoman of Petrobras, the claims threaten Ms Rousseff’s
reputation as a capable technocrat. Prosecutors allege the company was used for
extensive political donations.
A task force of federal public prosecutors in the state of Paraná, which
is leading the probe, said: “The suspects . . . converted R$250,000 extracted from corruption and abuse of public
office at Petrobras into a legitimate asset through the purchase of the Land
Rover.”
Mr Youssef’s lawyers said the vehicle purchase was not illegal and Mr
Costa’s lawyers added that the vehicle was payment for bona fide consultancy
services provided to Mr Youssef. Both men are in custody facing charges of
money laundering, corruption and abuse of public office.
Brazilians are appalled at accusations that criminals had infiltrated
Petrobras, their country’s biggest company, a national icon and a global leader
in ultra deepwater oil exploration. The company reported net profit last year
of R$23.6bn with production of 2.54m barrels of oil equivalent a day. Petrobras
is seen as so important that both the lower house and the Senate have launched
inquiries.
“This scandal has contributed greatly to the fall in the popularity of
the president,” says Senator Álvaro Dias, of the opposition PSDB, who is
participating in one of the congressional inquiries into the case. The
president’s approval rating has fallen from above 60 per cent early last year
to less than 40 per cent. But Ms Rousseff’s ruling
Workers’ party (PT) dismisses claims that Petrobras’s problems have damaged her
chances of winning a second term, saying the president has been cleared of any
wrongdoing in the scandals.
Beyond party politics, however, the controversy has highlighted what
analysts say is a dangerous flaw in Brazil’s national institutions: the ease
with which politicians are able to use state companies as a source of illicit
campaign funds. “The truth is most parties try to use state-owned enterprises
for their benefit,” said Sérgio Lazzarini, a professor at business school,
Insper, in São Paulo.
The Petrobras project at the centre of the scandal involving Mr Costa
and Mr Youssef is a refinery near Abreu e Lima in north-eastern Brazil.
A square in the small town features two statues, one honouring José
Inácio de Abreu e Lima, a revolutionary who left Recife and fought for
independence in Venezuela and Colombia. The other is of the Venezuelan general
Simón Bolívar, his comrade and another of the continent’s independence heroes.
“I guess one must be Abreu and the other is Lima,” says Francisco de Oliveira,
a 21-year-old bricklayer, leaning on the monument.
But if the town’s residents seem oblivious to the Brazilian freedom
fighter, the Petrobras refinery project has also done little to honour his
memory. Envisioned as a partnership between Brazil and Venezuela, the project
has become the focus of a police investigation into money laundering, known as Lava
Jato, or “Jumbo Wash”, in which Mr Youssef and Mr Costa have been
implicated.
In 2006, when the project began construction, former president Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva, Ms Rousseff’s predecessor and mentor, was pictured with
the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez shaking hands at the site. The
refinery was meant to be a business joint venture that would process
Venezuela’s heavy crude. But Caracas never put a cent into it: even the
anti-capitalist Chávez was put off by its escalating costs, former Petrobras
executives joke.
From an original budget of $2.5bn, the cost of the 230,000 barrels-a-day
refinery soared to $20bn, or $87,000 per barrel of refining capacity. This
makes it one of the most expensive ever built, analysts say. The international
average cost is between $13,000 and $39,000, according to an estimate from
Credit Suisse.
Although a listed company, Petrobras has always been politicised. But
oil executives say Mr Lula da Silva and his allies deepened the practice,
assigning a larger number of senior positions to political appointees, from the
former chief executive José Sergio Gabrielli, a PT member, to Mr Costa,
regarded as a representative of the pro-government Progressive party.
“The PT saw . . . that Petrobras could be a great instrument to
preserve power,” says Adriano Pires, founder of the Brazilian
Centre of Infrastructure, a research company.
The PT rejects such arguments, saying it is just opposition
electioneering that irresponsibly taints the reputation of Petrobras. Mr
Costa’s lawyer said while he might have had political support, he was a career
Petrobras engineer appointed on merit.
It was also from around 2006 that Petrobras embarked on a series of
transactions that are now the subject of corruption investigations. These
include accusations that it overpaid for a refinery in Pasadena in the US,
paying a sum 28 times greater than the original owner, Belgian company Astra,
paid for it. Brazil’s TCU – or federal accounts watchdog – ordered the former
board of Petrobras to return $792.3m to the company that it calculated as the
losses from the $1.18bn Pasadena transaction.
But by far the biggest concern is the Abreu e Lima refinery. According
to the prosecutors, the Lavo Jato investigation began as a
probe into suspected money laundering by the late José Mohamed Janene, a PP
politician. In the process, police discovered fraudulent transactions committed
between 2009 and 2013, allegedly by Mr Youssef and Petrobras’s Mr Costa.
Police suspect Mr Youssef to be “the biggest doleiro in
national history”, according to an investigation dossier, using the Portuguese
term for black market money dealer. He was convicted for financial crimes in
2004.
Mr Costa was appointed Petrobras’ director of fuel supply in 2004 and
became the executive responsible for refineries in 2008. Prosecution documents
allege Mr Youssef, Mr Costa and conspirators hatched myriad shell company
schemes to skim money from Petrobras and then “wash” it by sending it offshore.
“We have indications that Paulo Roberto [Mr Costa] transferred more than
$400m offshore through foreign exchange contracts,” says public prosecutor
Carlos Fernando Santos Lima.
The prosecution cites, as one example, findings by TCU that contracts
awarded to one builder, identified as Consórcio Nacional Camargo Corrêa, were
inflated in value by as much as R$446m. This company had in turn contracted two
others, Sanko Sider and Sanko Serviços, to supply materials and services,
paying them R$113m over four years.
These two, in turn, paid R$26m to an alleged shell company, MO
Consultoria, controlled by Mr Youssef, and other undisclosed sums to another of
his alleged shells, GFD. This money then allegedly made its way offshore.
CNCC told the FT in response to the allegations that it won its
contracts through legitimate public tenders. It said it was co-operating with
investigators. A spokesman for the Sanko companies said all transactions were
legitimate and made through the conventional banking system. He added that the
companies were assisting the investigation.
Prosecutors allege evidence seized from Mr Costa indicated he negotiated
with Petrobras’s contractors to make political donations. They point to a
document in which he wrote the names of six big Petrobras contractors that
donated a total of R$35.3m to parties in the governing coalition during the
2010 election. Prosecutors allege the document could be “treated as a
spreadsheet for possible campaign donations, in which Mr Costa acted as an
intermediary for these contributions with companies that had contracts with
Petrobras”.
Mr Costa’s lawyers said the prosecutors’ accusations against him are
baseless “assumptions”. They also said there was no evidence of inflating of
contracts. “The criteria adopted by the prosecution are contestable and this
will become clear as the case progresses.” Mr Youseff also denies the
allegations, his lawyers said.
PT politicians also said it was too early to draw conclusions about
political donations. They said Petrobras’s problem is its commercial
independence and ability to award contracts without the open tenders that would
be required of a public ministry.
Congressman Marco Maia, who is leading a lower house congressional
inquiry, said lawmakers would review Petrobras’s procurement processes to make
them more accountable. “We will change the legislation and democratise the
procurement and information-sharing process of Petrobras.”
At the Abreu e Lima refinery, rain clouds are clearing and workers
trudge back through the thick red mud of the construction site. A cleaner says
many workers “vanish as soon as it rains”, explaining the delays in the project.
Like the refinery project, mud from the Abreu e Lima scandal has
splattered Ms Rousseff’s election campaign, damaging her reputation as a
competent manager.
But analysts doubt that much of it will stick to her. She was recently
cleared by the TCU of wrongdoing in the Pasadena scandal. She has also
installed career Petrobras engineer, Maria das Graças Foster, as CEO, who has
“cleaned out” most of the political appointees, former Petrobras executives
say.
“Petrobras will continue to be a negative source of news for her during
the election but the key risk factor for her is a weakening economy,” says João
Augusto de Castro Neves of Eurasia Group, a consultancy.
More worrying for Brazil is the apparent propensity of state-owned
companies to be used by politicians intent on financing their campaigns.
Furnas, the federal power company, has also been embroiled in corruption
allegations linked to the 2002 elections which the former managers of the
company have previously denied.
A tougher anti-corruption law could help but enforcement will be vital.
Brazil’s convoluted legal system often allows those with good lawyers to avoid
jail. “This new law is a good thing but our track record of punishment is not
very bright,” said Mr Lazzarini of Insper.
One man who seemed to understand the problem of endemic corruption was
Mr Costa. In a notebook seized by police from his home, he jotted down a quote
from Millôr Fernandes, the Brazilian writer, that captured the cynicism many
feel about the country’s politics.
“Rooting out corruption is the ultimate goal of those who have not yet
come to power,” he scrawled.
Additional reporting by Thalita Carrico
The killer fish adding to a port’s woes
Making small talk in Brazil typically involves discussing football or
the traffic but in the northeastern city of Recife, shark attack anecdotes are
a popular icebreaker,writes Samantha Pearson.
There is the tale of the surfer whose wife divorced him after a shark
bit off both his arms or the teenage girl who had four heart attacks when her foot
was left hanging by a thread.
From shop workers to hotel concierges, everyone has a story to tell
about the killer fish that have been responsible for gruesome injuries and at
least one death a year for the past two decades.
“I’m not scared – I still swim here all the time,” boasts one man on
Recife’s main beach, ignoring placards advising bathers not to enter the water,
especially when they are drunk, wearing shiny objects or during a full moon.
But Recife has not always resembled the setting of one of Gabriel García Márquez’s magic realism novels. Researchers say the shark attacks began in
the early 1990s after the construction of the nearby Suape port, the 13,500-hectare industrial
complex that is home to Petrobras’s Abreu e Lima refinery.
“The intensification of maritime traffic and the impact of the port’s
construction on the ecosystem have been identified as the main causes of this
outbreak of attacks,” says Fábio Hazin, a professor at the Federal Rural
University of Pernambuco.
Sharks like to follow the ships, probably because many vessels discard
waste food into the sea. They are then pulled by the current towards Recife’s
main beach, where they mistake humans for prey, says Professor Hazin.
For critics of Petrobras’s Abreu e Lima refinery, which is embroiled in
corruption allegations, the shark attacks and environmental concerns over Suape
have been yet another reason to object to the state-controlled oil company’s
project.
“Sustainability is not a concept that was central to [Suape],” according
to the non-profit organisation, Instituto Ethos. “Now we have to compensate for
and fix the consequences of the measures that were taken.”
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Mark Ruffalo
- the Hollywood actor best known for playing the Hulk - has waded into
Brazilian politics to endorse a presidential candidate, only to reverse his
position the following day.
The Hulk actor isn't a regular pundit on South American electoral races. But on
Sunday he chose to join the debate in Brazil, kick-starting an unusual chain of
events that played out over social media.
"Marina Silva is
probably one of the most interesting and exciting politicians on the world
stage today," he said in a YouTube video, endorsing the presidential candidate.
The video touched a nerve
with legions of gay rights campaigners in Brazil. They started tweeting Ruffalo
urging him not to back a candidate they said did not support gay marriage.
"I hope you're just misinformed. Read more about it please," asked
one.
Ruffalo soon replied.
"Thank you, I am looking into it. I can not support a homophobic," he said, and asked Silva directly on Twitter: "Are you pro marriage equality?"
An aide tweeted back from
her account to say that she was, posting a link to her manifesto which pledges support for they gay community. But many of her
political opponents chose to keep the conversation going. "Nope," and "NÃO," they tweeted back. Some claimed that they doubted the manifesto reflected her true intentions. The
actor's name began trending in Brazil, and has appeared some 20,000 times in
the last two days.
Eventually, Ruffalo
declared his position. "It has come to my attention that the Brazilian
Candidate for President, Marina Silva, may be against gay marriage... It is a
little bit murky and unclear presently," he said on his Tumblr blog. "I have to apologise for not doing a
better job of vetting this decision." Until Silva clarified her views, he
wrote, "my support is null and void."
Silva is one of three leading
candidates for the presidency in Sunday's election. Born into a poverty in a
small village, she worked on a rubber tree plantation and as a housemaid before
making her way into politics. She hopes to usurp the country's current
president - Dilma Rousseff - whose incumbent left-wing Workers Party has held
power for almost 12 years, but has recently been beset by a string of
corruption scandals. Along with Aecio Neves - who leads the centrist PSDB party
- all the candidates have signalled their support for gay rights, though doubts
remain about whether they will prioritise the issue after the election.
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PERSONALITIES’ REFUSALS TO MARINA SILVA
PERSONALITIES’ REFUSALS TO MARINA SILVA
Hello All,
It has come to my attention
that the Brazilian Candidate for President, Marina Silva, may be against gay
marriage. That would put me in direct conflict with her. As you know I have
fought for marriage equality in my country and see it as a reflection of the
quality of a candidate. I did not know this was her stand on this issue when I
made the video supporting her. I only saw her debate where she said she
supported gay marriage and have come to find out after the fact that her party
has pulled her support of this issue. I can not, in good conscience, support a
candidate who takes a hard right approach to issues such as Gay Marriage and Reproductive
rights even if that candidate is willing to do the right thing on environmental
issues.
I am not an expert on
Brazilian politics but I can say that Women’s Rights, Gay Rights and
Environmental Rights are all part in parcel to a kind of world view that I
ascribe to. To have a world view that does not include all three of those
positions makes it impossible for me to endorse a particular candidate.
I have to apologize for not
doing a better job of vetting this decision. I apologize if I have let anyone
down or made them feel somehow I had done an about face on those issues that I
clearly have made an effort to confront and fight.
At this time it would be
good to know definitively where Candidate Silva stands on these issues and in
no uncertain terms. It is a little bit murky and unclear presently. Until that
time, based on what I have been able to glean from the few posts here, and what
is available on the internet, I am withdrawing my endorsement. I would ask that
her campaign would not use my video endorsement until they either state their
support for gay marriage and the reproductive rights of women or make it clear
where they stand on these important issues. Short of that my support is null
and void.
I apologize to the Silva
campaign for not having a better handle on their policies and creating this
inconvenience. I was disappointed to see her support for gay marriage be
dropped by her party the day after she gave it in a speech. I ask that you
honor my wishes in good faith.
Sincerely
Mark Ruffalo
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SOURCE/LINK:
http://www.brasil247.com/pt/247/cultura/155193/Ator-Mark-Ruffalo-retira-apoio-a-Marina-Silva.htm
Ator Mark Ruffalo retira apoio a
Marina Silva
Um dia depois de gravar um vídeo de apoio à
candidatura à Presidência de Marina Silva, do PSB, o ator norte-americano Mark
Ruffalo, que interpretou Hulk na série de filmes "Vingadores",
retirou seu apoio a Marina, após "tomar conhecimento" de que a
evangélica da Assembleia de Deus é contra o casamento gay e os direitos
reprodutivos da mulher; "Não posso, em sã consciência, apoiar um candidato
que tem uma abordagem dura em relação a questões como o casamento entre
homossexuais e os direitos reprodutivos, mesmo que o candidato esteja disposto
a fazer a coisa certa sobre as questões ambientais", escreveu o ator
29 de Setembro de 2014 às 21:34
247 - Um dia depois de gravar um vídeo de apoio à
candidatura à Presidência de Marina Silva, do PSB, o ator norte-americano Mark
Ruffalo, que interpretou Hulk na série de filmes "Vingadores",
retirou seu apoio a Marina, após "tomar conhecimento" de que a evangélica
da Assembleia de Deus é contra o casamento gay e os direitos reprodutivos da
mulher.
No texto divulgado nesta segunda-feira em seu
Tumblr oficial, o ator diz que não sabia sobre sua posição ao gravar o vídeo.
"(...) só vi o seu debate, onde ela disse que apoiou o casamento gay, e
vim a descobrir depois o fato de que seu partido retirou o apoio a esta
questão. Eu não posso, em sã consciência, apoiar um candidato que tem uma
abordagem dura em relação a questões como o casamento entre homossexuais e os direitos
reprodutivos, mesmo que o candidato esteja disposto a fazer a coisa certa sobre
as questões ambientais", escreveu o ator.
No vídeo, divulgado pela campanha de Marina nas
redes sociais nesse domingo, 28, Ruffalo diz que a candidata é uma das
"mais interessantes e animadoras pessoas no cenário político mundial, hoje
em dia". Ruffalo também diz que Marina representa um "entendimento de
um novo tipo de paradigma no mundo". "Existe um clamor no mundo por
alguém que está disposto a ter a coragem e a força para mudar isso", e
Marina "é uma dessas pessoas muito muito especiais".
O ator também disse em seu texto não ser
especialista em política brasileira mas que os "direitos das mulheres,
direitos dos homossexuais e os direitos ambientais" fazem parte do seu conjunto
de visão de mundo e que fica impossível para ele endossar um candidato em
particular que não tenha essa mesma visão das três questões.
Quanto aos direitos reprodutivos da mulher citado
pelo ator, Marina sempre se declarou contra o aborto. No perfil oficial da
candidata, a campanha de Marina respondeu em inglês a Ruffalo que não é verdade
que ela seja contra o casamento gay, que o apoio a união entre homossexuais
está em seu programa de governo e postou o link para ao site com o documento.
"Além disso, @markruffalo, você precisa saber que as eleições brasileiras
estão tendo uma enxurada de mentiras e essa é outra sobre Marina", tuitou
a campanha.
Ruffalo, então, pediu para que fosse enviado a ele
o programa em inglês e questionou se ela era a favor do casamento entre pessoas
do mesmo sexo. Até o momento, a candidata não respondeu o ator.
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VERISSIMO EXPLAINS THE reasons
to why not vote for
why not vote for MARINA
COLUNA
Verissimo
Verissimo
The writer Luis Fernando Verissimo from Rio Grande do Sul State.
Photo: Neco Varella
09/14/2014 00:00
Marina
Do not imagine that Malafaia and other evangelical
bishops would have the same power in the government who had on the wording of
the principles of candidate
The comparison of the Marina with fore Presidents
Quadros and Collor is a free demonstration, but if she would be
elected, she will enter the list of our exotic presidents - which does not mean
it will have the same fate as the others. Female, black, with a most admirable overcoming
personal story of her origin even more remarkable than that of Lula, she
would, in government, at least one international curiosity, and perhaps a
surprise. I find it difficult
to survive all her characteristic contradictions and get there, but in Brazil,
definitely, you can never say you've seen that, you can imagine everything that may happen. We
are quite slaves to eccentric.
The influence of religion in a hypothetical Marina
management is debatable. Do not imagine that the bishop Malafaia and other
evangelical bishops would have the same power in the government who had on the
wording of the principles of candidate forced to change some not to be
displease them. And what does it mean to
have an evangelical government rather than a Catholic or like “Umbanda”
religion government? Obscurantism by obscurantism, would mean the same. Another
oddity of the moment – related to “ Exclusively happens only in Brazil" – and
in fact there is a paradox related to her in the same time she is the most revolutionary
and conservative candidate at the same time.
The almost universal approval of gay marriage is
becoming obsolete this issue, that means annoyed, but other issues clashed with
religious principles, such as the release of abortion and stem cell research,
affect the life and death of millions of people. It is impossible to know how
many women have died in illegal abortions clandestine clinics by direct fault
of the prohibition of the use of condoms by the Vatican, for example.
It doesn’t make no difference to me, for you and
for our everyday if God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh
because He was not of iron made , or if humanity is descended from apes. I even
adopted a mixed belief: I believe that all the ancestors of our species were
sons of apes except mine ancestors, who
were adopted. But opposition to stem cell research that may lead to cures for
various deadly diseases today is no joke. It is in some way criminal.
I think the Marina an extraordinary woman. But as
someone who is in line to receive any benefits of stem cell research, I vote according
to irrational
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VERISSIMO EXPLICA POR QUE NÃO VOTA EM MARINA
Para o escritor Luis Fernando Verissimo,
Marina Silva, candidata do PSB, dificilmente chegará à presidência da República
por ser muito contraditória; de qualquer forma, diz que não dará seu voto à
candidata “mais revolucionaria destas eleições, que ao mesmo tempo é a mais
conservadora”; ele condena suas posições contra a liberação do aborto e a
pesquisa com células-tronco; afirma que a oposição à última questão, ‘que pode
levar à cura de várias doenças hoje mortais é criminosa’; o escritor gaúcho
afirma que irá votar "com o coração", ou seja, em defesa da saúde e
contra Marina
Ainda
que não acredite em suas chances de chegar à Presidência do Brasil por “todas
as suas contradições”, explica que prefere seguir o voto do seu coração.
Veríssimo
condena as posições da candidata “mais revolucionaria destas eleições, que ao
mesmo tempo é a mais conservadora”, especialmente em relação ao aborto e às
pesquisas com células-tronco.
“É
impossível saber quantas mulheres já morreram em abortos clandestinos por culpa
direta da proibição do uso de preservativos pelo Vaticano, por exemplo”, cita.
“Mas a oposição à pesquisa com células-tronco que pode levar à cura de várias
doenças hoje mortais não é brincadeira. É criminosa”, conclui.
Verissimo
diz que irá votar "com seu coração", ou seja, contra Marina.
"Acho a Marina uma mulher extraordinária. Mas, como alguém que está na
fila para receber os eventuais benefícios de pesquisas com células-tronco, voto
no meu coração." (leia aqui a íntegra)
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