20 years of communist infiltration in Latin America

2.3.2021 The Editor.

 

Below we offer the translation of a well documented article on the process of communist infiltration in Latin America, from the Sao Paulo Forum.  The translated original follows below:

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Unbiased analysis of the essential facts of politics and culture in Brazil and the rest of the world, based on Lima Barreto’s rule: “Mock and simply mock, so that everything becomes ridiculous”.

Learn about the the São Paulo Forum, Brazil’s greatest enemy

By Felipe Moura Brazil.  Updated July 31, 2020, 04:11 – Published March 24, 2014, 10:29 am.

 

The greatest enemy of Brazil and of the continent, in the last decades, needs to be identified by the good men of this country, so I gather below the minimum you need to know about it to inform yourself and raise awareness among your friends by sharing this link on social networks.

Founded in 1990 by Lula and Fidel Castro – by Lula’s own idea, as he himself declared (which is never at all reliable) in May 2011 [see Video 5] -, the “São Paulo Forum is the largest political organization that has ever existed in Latin America and, without a doubt, one of the largest in the world”. All the left-wing leaders of the continent participate in it. But it is not a left-wing organization like any other. It brings together more than a hundred legal parties and several criminal organizations linked to drug trafficking and the kidnapping industry, such as the FARC and the Chilean MIR, all committed to a common strategic articulation and the search for mutual advantages. Never has the world seen, on such a gigantic scale, such an intimate, so persistent, so organized and so long-lasting coexistence between politics and crime”, as the philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, author of the best seller idealized and organized by me, ‘O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota’ (The minimum you need to know to not be an idiot), wrote in 2007.

For almost two decades, Brazilian newspapers and alleged opponents hid from the general public the existence of the São Paulo Forum, discovered by São Paulo lawyer José Carlos Graça Wagner, who publicly denounced it on September 1, 1997, and there was no shortage of those who branded its denouncers as “conspiracy theorists”. Some years ago, when the Forum had already made and unmade governments throughout Latin America, electing presidents of the countries of the continent, which are about 15 members of this organization, his name began to appear here and there in the reports, as if the Forum were an entity like any other.

Let’s see if it really is… Come with me:

 

I.

VIDEO 1 – 2012 – MESSAGE FROM LULA IN SUPPORT OF HUGO CHAVEZ

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“In 1990, when we created the São Paulo Forum, none of us imagined that in just two decades we would get to where we have arrived. At that time, the left was only in power in Cuba. Today, we govern a large number of countries and, even where we remain the opposition, Forum parties have a growing influence in political and social life. Progressive governments are changing the face of Latin America. (…) In everything we have done so far, which has been a lot, the Forum and the Forum parties have played a great role that can be even more important if we know how to maintain our main characteristic: unity in diversity. (…) Under Chávez’ leadership, the Venezuelan people have had extraordinary achievements, the popular classes have never been treated with so much respect, affection and dignity. (…) His victory will be our victory”.

 

II.

VIDEO 2 – 2008 – HUGO CHAVEZ CONFESSES: LULA AND FARC TOGETHER IN THE 1995 FORUM

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of São Paulo in 1995 in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, Central America:

 

“I received the invitation to attend, in 1995, the São Paulo Forum, which was installed that year in San Salvador. (…) On that occasion I met Lula, among others. And someone came up to my place at the meeting, to a table where we were in a group talking, and I remember that he put his hand here [on my left shoulder] and said: ‘Man, I want to talk to you. ‘ And I said, ‘Who are you?’ ‘Raul Reyes, one of the commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.’ We met that night, in some humble neighborhood there in El Salvador. (…) And then a channel of communication was opened and he came here (…) and we talked for hours and hours. Then, on a third and last occasion, he came here too”.

III.

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FARC AND PT, ACCORDING TO COMMANDER RAÚL REYES

In an interview granted to Folha de S. Paulo on August 27, 2003, Raul Reyes made, among others, the following statements: “Folha – Do you know Lula?

Reyes: Yes, I don’t remember exactly what year I met him, it was in San Salvador, at one of the São Paulo Forums.

Folha: Did you have a conversation?

Reyes: Yes, we were in charge of chairing the meeting. Since then, we met in different places and kept in touch until recently. When he became president, we could no longer talk to him.

Folha – When was the last time you spoke to him?  Reyes – I don’t remember exactly. About three years ago.

Folha: Outside the government, who are the FARC’s contacts in Brazil?

Reyes: The FARC has contacts not only in Brazil, but also with different political forces and governments, parties and social movements.

 

Folha: Can you name the most important ones?

 

Reyes: Well, the PT, and of course, within the PT, there are many forces; the landless, the homeless, students, trade unionists, intellectuals, priests, historians, journalists….

Folha – What intellectuals?

Reyes – [Sociologist] Emir Sader, frei Betto [Lula’s special advisor] and many others”.

 

IV.

VALTER POMAR’S LIE ABOUT THE FARC AND THE FORUM

On August 18, 2010, it appeared in Estadão Online:

“The executive secretary of the São Paulo Forum, Valter Pomar, of the Workers’ Party (PT Partido dos Trabalhadores), denied today (18) any link of this group of Latin American left and center-left parties, created in 1990, with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The FARC does not participate and has never participated in the São Paulo Forum”.

Agencia Estado insisted on the question of whether any political party linked to the FARC participated in the Forum in 1990, when the group was created by the PT in the city of São Paulo. I was there. It did not even participate as a sector of the party,” he said. According to him, all Colombian representatives participating in the Forum meetings belong to legal organizations and parties. The executive secretary of the Forum said that this issue came up again because of the statement of the vice-presidential candidate in the candidacy of the Brazilian presidential aspirant, José Serra, Indio da Costa (DEM), about the connection between the PT and the FARC”.

Olavo de Carvalho wrote on this occasion:

“Do you mean then that Raul Reyes lied when he said he had presided over a Forum assembly together with Lula? Do you mean then that Hugo Chavez was delirious when he said he had met with Raul Reyes and Lula in a Forum meeting? Do you mean then that the contents of the magazine America Libre are all false? Do you mean then that the minutes of the Forum were invented by me, that I even had the luxury of writing them in Spanish? Go on, go lick soap!”.

 

V.

LULA’S SPEECH ON JULY 2, 2005 – 15 YEARS OF THE FORUM

Delivered at the celebration of the 15 years of existence of the São Paulo Forum and reproduced on the official government website, this speech is, according to Olavo de Carvalho, “the explicit confession of a conspiracy against national sovereignty, a crime infinitely more serious than all the crimes of corruption practiced and covered up by the current government; a crime that, in itself, would justify not only the impeachment but also the imprisonment of its author.”

“Because of the existence of the São Paulo Forum, comrade Marco Aurelio [Garcia] has played an extraordinary role in this work of consolidation of what we started in 1990…. That is how we, in January 2003, proposed to our comrade, President Chávez, the creation of the Group of Friends to find a peaceful solution which, thank God, happened in Venezuela. And it was only possible thanks to a political action of the comrades.

It was not a political action of a state with another state, nor of a president with another president. Whoever remembers, Chavez participated in one of the forums we held in Havana. And thanks to this relationship it was possible to build, with many political differences, the consolidation of what happened in Venezuela, with the referendum that consecrated Chavez as President of Venezuela.

Thus we were able to act together with other countries with our comrades of the social movement, of the parties of those countries, of the union movement, always using the relationship built in the Sao Paulo Forum so that we could speak without appearing and without people understanding any political interference”.

Olavo de Carvalho wrote on this occasion:

“(…) Mr. President recognizes, in short, that he subjected the country to decisions made by foreigners, gathered in assemblies of an entity whose actions the Brazilian people were not supposed to know, much less understand.

The active humiliation of national sovereignty could not be more evident, especially when it is known that among the entities participating in these decisive meetings are organizations such as the Chilean MIR, kidnappers of Brazilians, and the FARC, Colombian narco-guerrillas, responsible, according to their partner Fernandinho Beira-Mar, for injecting two hundred tons of cocaine annually into the national market. (…)”

 

VI.

VIDEO 3 – LULA LIES TO BORIS CASOY DURING THE 2002 CAMPAIGN

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VII.

EN/FARC/FORUM – SEQUENCE OF EVENTS

On September 24, 2007, Olavo de Carvalho published the article “The danger is me”, in which he again asks the reader -he had already done so in “Rereading news”, from 2003- the kindness of briefly examining this sequence of events:

“- April 2001: Trafficker Fernandinho-Beira Mar confesses to buying and injecting into the Brazilian market, annually, two hundred tons of cocaine from the Farc in exchange for weapons smuggled from Lebanon.

– December 7, 2001: The São Paulo Forum, in coordination with the Latin American communist movement, under the presidency of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, launches a manifesto of unconditional support to the FARC, in which it qualifies as “State terrorism” the military actions of the Colombian government against this organization.

– October 17, 2002: The PT, through Giancarlo Summa, international affairs advisor to Lula’s electoral campaign, states in a communiqué that the PT has nothing to do with the FARC and that the São Paulo Forum is only “a forum for debate, not a structure for international political coordination”.

– March 1, 2003: The government, in support of the PT, officially extends its protective mantle over the FARC, refusing to classify it as a terrorist organization, as requested by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

 

– August 24, 2003: FARC commander Raul Reyes informs that the main contact of the narco-terrorist group in Brazil is the PT, and within it, Lula, Frei Betto and Emir Sader.

– March 15, 2005: the scandal of the five million dollars that a FARC agent, the false priest Olivério Medina, claims to have contributed to Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva’s electoral campaign breaks out. The matter is superficially investigated and soon disappears from the news.

– July 2, 2005: Speech at the 15th. Anniversary of the São Paulo Forum, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva contradicts his statement of October 17, 2002, confessing that the Forum is a secret entity, “built so that we could speak without it appearing and without people understanding any political interference”, since this entity actively interfered in the Venezuelan plebiscite and that there, in secret, he himself made government decisions together with Chávez, Fidel Castro and other leftist leaders, without informing Parliament or public opinion.

– April 9, 2006: Vítor Santos, head of the Anti-Drug Agency of the Federal Police of Rio de Janeiro, informs the newspaper O Dia that “eighteen traffickers of the criminal group Comando Vermelho -among them at least one from Jacarezinho and another from Morro da Mangueira- periodically go to the Brazilian border with Colombia to buy cocaine directly from the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The bandits are the subject of a Federal Police investigation. They have occupied the space formerly occupied by Luiz Fernando da Costa, known as Fernandinho Beira-Mar.

– May 12, 2006: The PCC in São Paulo launches attacks that sow terror among the population. On December 27 it is the Red Command’s turn to do the same in Rio de Janeiro.

– July 18, 2006: The Federal Supreme Court, under pressure from a broad political movement orchestrated by the PT, grants political asylum to the false priest Olivério Medina, a FARC agent.

– February 12, 2007: The FARC praises the PT for saving the Latin American communist movement from extinction by founding the São Paulo Forum.

 

– August 2007: In the preparatory videos for its 3rd Congress, the PT admits that its objective is to eliminate capitalism and implant a socialist regime in Brazil; it also provides a second denial to Giancarlo Summa’s note, by confessing that the São Paulo Forum is “a space of strategic articulation” (sic).

– September 19, 2007: Lula offers Brazilian territory to host a meeting between Hugo Chávez and FARC commanders.

Between these events there were countless others, whose date I do not remember precisely at this moment, among them the massive supply of weapons to the FARC by the government of Hugo Chávez, a national media campaign to demoralize the American strategic analyst Constantine Menges, who divulged the existence of a Lula-Castro-Chávez-Farc axis, as well as the shootings between FARC guerrillas and Brazilian army soldiers in the Amazon, the allegations that the FARC provided urban guerrilla training to MST militants and, of course, denounced several general assemblies and working group meetings of the São Paulo Forum.

The existence of a deep, constant and solidary link between the PT and the FARC is such a proven fact that whoever insists on denying it can only be interested in keeping it a secret or else an incurably mentally ill person. (…)”

 

VIII.

VIDEO 4 – 14TH MEETING OF THE FORUM – MONTEVIDEO, 2008

Report by Veja.com on the XIV Meeting of the São Paulo Forum, in Montevideo, in 2008, with the participation of PT members José Eduardo Martins Cardozo, Marco Aurélio Garcia, Raul Pont, Valter Pomar and Nilmário Miranda; and the repetition of all the socialist slogans and revolutionary cries.

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IX.

VIDEO 5 – LULA’S SPEECH IN 2011 – 17TH FORUM MEETING

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Excerpts from Lula’s speech, in which he recalls when he had the idea of the Forum and the day he met Fidel Castro, admitting that Chavez attempted a coup d’état in Venezuela, and shows how the Forum participants were conquering power throughout Latin America, country by country (besides, of course, giving free rein to all their electoral bravado):

“(…) Dear comrade Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, and his partner Rosario [Murillo]; dear comrade [Ricardo] Alarcón [de Quesada], representing here the extraordinary Cuban people; dear comrade [Nicolás] Maduro, chancellor of Venezuela, dear Latin American comrades and guests at this 17th meeting of the São Paulo Forum.

It always worries me, dear [José Manuel] Zelaya, to participate in these forums and speak in Portuguese. Nothing I say is understood. I have a translator who is a naturalized Brazilian Cuban.

I would like to tell everyone that I am excited because it has been a long time since I have participated in a meeting of the São Paulo Forum. It seems that the last time was at the Latin Bar in São Paulo in 2005, but only in passing. And I remember when we had the idea of building the São Paulo Forum. In 1985, I did an interview for a Brazilian newspaper and I said that it was not possible for a metalworker to reach the presidency by voting and democratically contesting an election. Four years later, I went to the first presidential contest, passed to the second round [of voting] and finished the elections with 47% of the votes. The PT came out of those elections very strong. The left-wing parties that are here, the Brazilians – I don’t know if they are all here, but the PCdoB, the PSB, I don’t know if they are… the PDT – that were with me, we all came out very strong.

And then the idea came up, talking with the Cuban comrades at the beginning, that we should have a meeting of the Latin American left. And we held our first meeting in Sao Paulo, at the Hotel Danubio, which no longer exists, in June 1990. There were, my dear Maduro, so many left-wing parties in Latin America and so many divergences, that only from Argentina 13 political parties attended and the only thing that united the Argentines were Maradona’s goals in the 1990 World Cup. There was a process of great distrust among the entire Latin American left. We had not yet learned a basic lesson that would allow the left to come to power. We have a brilliant Brazilian educator, who has already died, one of the most important educators that many Latin Americans know, Paulo Freire, who said: ‘Bring together the different to overcome the antagonistic’.

And we were learning to live together, and we were building a difficult, complicated and democratic relationship. I remember once in the meeting of the São Paulo Forum in El Salvador, we did not allow Chávez to participate, because Chávez had attempted a coup d’état in Venezuela and we did not allow him to participate.

It was very difficult. There was a process of great distrust between us. And from the bottom of my heart I want to tell you that one of the political forces that contributed the most to our building what we have built were the comrades of the Communist Party of Cuba, who always had the patience and experience to help us. I cannot underestimate the work of comrade Marco Aurelio Garcia, who today is in the government, not here, but who participated in almost all the meetings of the São Paulo Forum.

I still imagine that some people are no longer with us. And I want to salute those who are not here with us, paying tribute to comrade Schafik [Handal], of the Farabundo Martí Front, who is not with us. Applause] We are a little older. When the Forum began, I didn’t have any white hair. Tomaz Borges had all the hair on his head. Daniel Ortega was hairy. [laughs] I mean: we are tired, more than when we started the Forum. But the road we have traveled cannot lose the importance of our achievements. We are talking about 21 years. Twenty-one years is the maturity of a young man or woman. And in these 21 years, let us look at the picture of Latin America in 1990 and let us look at the picture of Latin America in 2011, and we will realize that a real hurricane of democracy has passed through our continent. A real hurricane.

I keep looking at South America. When I became President in 2002, there was only Chavez. Even then, he had suffered a coup. Then came [Néstor] Kirchner. After Kirchner came the elections in Paraguay. Then, in Uruguay, with Tabaré [Ramón Vázquez Rosas]. Then came Ecuador. And we continued to make an extraordinary change that culminated with the election of comrade Evo Morales in Bolivia. Applause] It is the most vivid demonstration of this political evolution of the Latin American left. Applause.

Because these guys, and I say guys because I had the pleasure of participating on July 19, 1980 in the first anniversary of the Sandinista Front, when the main speaker was Tomas Borges, the day I met Fidel Castro and we went to eat lobster at I don’t know whose house, and I remember perfectly well that after coming to power through a revolution, at the time the Sandinista Front was not afraid and called for democratic elections. He lost. Daniel is the only human being on the planet who has lost more elections than me. I have lost three elections. Daniel lost four elections. [Laughter.] Four elections.

 

X.

VIDEO 6 – JOSÉ DIRCEU TALKS ABOUT THE FORUM IN THE PROGRAM “PROVOCAÇÕES

As Olavo de Carvalho wrote on Facebook:

“I have been warning for years that in the São Paulo Forum the most important thing is not the assemblies, but the discreet, or secretive talks, where the destiny of several countries is decided behind the backs of the population. Example:”

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ANTÔNIO ABUJAMRA: Years ago you could imagine a Latin America like this: Fidel, Chávez, Morales, Bachelet, Correa? Who else, all the leftists of South America! Could you have predicted that this would happen?

JOSÉ DIRCEU: Not to predict. But we were already fighting and working for it. Even because we created the São Paulo Forum, which fought for this; then we also created the Marbella Group, because it is the name of the city and of the hotel where we stayed in Chile, which met, ALL were presidents…. They were all later elected presidents of the Republic. They all were. ALL. Ciro Gomes, who was participating, and [Mexico’s] Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas have not gone yet. But [Vicente] Fox was [in Mexico]. Ricardo] Lagos was [in Chile]. Tabaré Vazquez was [in Uruguay]. [Cites another, inaudible.] Lula went. So you see that it is not Chávez, Evo Morales….

 

 

ANTONIO ABUJAMRA [interrupting]: Tabaré, Kirchner… If these people unite, which is a bit difficult, what happens with Latin America?

JOSÉ DIRCEU: No, the condition for Latin America to move forward is that these presidents of these countries unite. That is why the information that the Bank of the South is advancing… and the consolidation of Mercosur, and energy integration, the gas pipeline, and even the free trade zone between our countries…. There is nothing more important for us than Latin American integration. Today, NAFTA, the European Union and the Asian Pact: 70% of trade is intra-bloc. Only 30 [%] is exported outside the bloc. Here, in Latin America or South America, it is still 20 or 25%. So we have a lot to integrate.

 

XI.

VIDEO 7 – SPEECHES BY LULA AND DILMA ON THE FORUM AND THE REVOLUTION

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all left-wing parties in Latin America. Don’t think it’s easy. There are comrades here who participate…”

DILMA: “I feel very happy to be in the tent of the Cuban revolution, of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, which was a historic event in Latin America and had a profound influence on my generation. So I consider this a special moment”.

 

XII.

VIDEO 8 – LULA’S SPEECH IN 2013 – LULA EXPLAINS THE STRATEGY OF THE SÃO PAULO FORUM TO COME TO POWER.

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“In 1990, or rather in 1980, the Latin American left did not believe it was possible to come to power through democratic dispute and above all through elections. (…) And history has been in charge of demonstrating that democracy exercised through the participation of the masses can be the best source for the left to come to power in any country in the world. Let us look at the experience of comrade Chávez (…). It is important to remember that a large part of the Venezuelan elite does not accept the arrival of Chávez to power (…), just as they do not accept Lula in Brazil and Dilma in Brazil…. And we have come and I want, comrade of the leadership of the São Paulo Forum, to credit part of the arrival of the left to power in Latin America to the existence of this thing called the São Paulo Forum. It was here and we owe a lot to the Cuban comrades, we owe a lot to the Cuban comrades, because, contrary to what many conservatives think, the Cuban comrades always, always taught us that the exercise of tolerance among us, the peaceful coexistence in adversity among us, the coexistence among the different sectors of the left was the only possibility that allowed us to advance here in this continent. And this has happened and can happen much more, because now we have the obligation not to allow any setback in the achievements we have obtained so far. No setbacks”.

By the way: the “Cuban comrades”, according to Lula, always taught the “exercise of tolerance” and “peaceful coexistence” among the various sectors of THE LEFT, of course. Because, in Fidel and Raul Castro’s Cuba, “tolerance” and “pacifism” towards political opponents have always been exercised with arrests and even executions.

 

 

 

 

XIII.

FIVE CRIMES OF THE SÃO PAULO FORUM

August 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM By Olavo de Carvalho

1) It gave shelter and political protection to terrorist organizations and gangs of drug traffickers and kidnappers who, in the meantime, spread addiction, suffering and death throughout the continent, even turning Brazil into the country where drug consumption is growing the most in Latin America.

2) By associating criminal entities with legal parties in the pursuit of common advantages, it transformed the latter into partners in crime, institutionalizing illegality as a normal routine of political life in dozens of nations.

3) It has flouted all the constitutions of its member countries, inviting each of their governments to blatantly meddle in the internal politics of neighboring nations, and providing the means for them to do so “without anyone noticing,” as Mr. Lula confessed, and without ever being accountable to their respective electorates.

Thus, all continental politics is lowered to the condition of a secret negotiation between interested groups, and democracy is turned into a deceitful façade.

5) It spent a lot of money on travel and accommodation for many thousands of people, during twenty-three years, without ever informing, neither the Brazilian people nor the peoples of neighboring nations, neither the origin of the financing nor the criteria for its application. To this day we do not know what part of the expenses was paid by criminal organizations, what part was diverted from the different governments, what part came from international fortunes or other sources. We never saw an invoice, a service order, an accounting, not even a mock accounting. The thing has the transparency of a lead wall.

 

 

 

 

XIV.

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR ON THE NEED TO SPY ON BRAZIL: “YOU ONLY HAVE TO READ THE FORUM’S MINUTES

The following is the text I translated for the occasion. Olavo de Carvalho commented: “How is it possible that an entity that does not even exist, or that is only an innocent discussion club, can create a diplomatic crisis of massive dimensions? ALL those who hid or disguised for almost two decades the existence of the São Paulo Forum are guilty that this is happening now.”

 

WHY WE SPY ON BRAZIL

Translation by Felipe Moura Brazil of Carlos Alberto Montaner’s column published in the Miami Herald on September 25, 2013.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff canceled her visit to President Obama. She felt offended because the United States was spying on her email. You don’t do that with a friendly country. The information, probably reliable, was provided by Edward Snowden from his Moscow safe house.

Intrigued, I asked a former U.S. ambassador, “Why did they do that?” His explanation was harshly frank:

“From Washington’s point of view, the Brazilian government is not exactly friendly. By definition and historically, Brazil is a friendly country that stood by our side during World War II and Korea, but their current government is not.”

The ambassador and I are old friends. “Can I reveal your name?”, I asked. “No,” he replied. “That would create a big problem for me. But you can transcribe our conversation.” That’s what I’ll do here.

“Just read the minutes of the São Paulo Forum and look at the conduct of the Brazilian government,” he said. “The friends of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff and the Workers’ Party are the enemies of the United States: the Chavista Venezuela, first with (Hugo) Chávez and now with (Nicolás) Maduro; Raúl Castro’s Cuba; Iran; Evo Morales’ Bolivia; Gaddafi-era Libya; Bashar Assad’s Syria.

 

“In almost all conflicts, the Brazilian government agrees with the political lines of Russia and China, as opposed to the perspective of the U.S. State Department and the White House. The ideological family it most resembles is the BRICS, with which it tries to reconcile its foreign policy. The BRICS are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

“The immense South American nation has not manifested nor does it manifest the slightest will to defend the democratic principles that are systematically violated in Cuba. On the contrary, former President Lula da Silva often brings investors to the island to reinforce the Castro dictatorship. The money invested by the Brazilians in the development of the mega port of Mariel, near Havana, is estimated at 1 billion dollars.

face surgically altered. He returned to Brazil with a new identity (Carlos Henrique Gouveia de Mello, a Jewish merchant) and remained in that role until democracy was restored. Hand in hand with Lula, he placed Brazil among the main collaborators of the Cuban dictatorship. He fell in disgrace for being corrupt, but never backed down one iota in his ideological preferences and complicity with Havana.

“Something similar happens with Professor Marco Aurelio Garcia, Dilma Rousseff’s current foreign policy advisor. He is a contumacious anti-Iranian, even worse than Dirceu, because he is smarter and has been better trained. He will do everything he can to mislead the United States.

“For Itamaraty – a Foreign Ministry famous for the quality of its diplomats, generally polyglot and well-trained – the Democratic Charter signed in Lima in 2001 is just an unimportant piece of paper. The government simply ignores the electoral frauds committed in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and is totally indifferent to any abuse of press freedom.

“But that’s not all. There are two other issues that make the U.S. want to be informed about everything that happens in Brazil because, in one way or another, they affect U.S. security: corruption and drugs.

“Brazil is a notoriously corrupt country and these malpractices affect U.S. laws in two ways: when Brazilians use the U.S. financial system and when they compete unfairly with U.S. companies by resorting to bribes or kickbacks.

 

“The drug issue is different. Bolivian coca production has quintupled since Evo Morales became president, and the distributor of this substance is Brazil. Almost all of it ends up in Europe, and our allies want information. This information is sometimes in the hands of Brazilian politicians”.

My last two questions are inevitable: Will Washington support Brazil’s candidacy for permanent membership in the UN Security Council?

“If you ask me, no,” he says. “We already have two permanent opponents: Russia and China. We don’t need a third.”

In closing, will the U.S. continue to spy on Brazil?

“Absolutely,” he tells me. “It’s our responsibility to American society.” I think Dona Dilma should change her email frequently.

 

XV.

AUDIO – GRAÇA SALGUEIRO EXPLAINS THE HISTORY OF THE FORUM

In an excellent interview to Bruno Garschagen about the murderous Chavist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, in Podcast 112 of Mises Brasil, the author of the inescapable blog NotaLatina, Graça Salgueiro, makes a summary of the São Paulo Forum, starting at minute 30, which I transcribe below.

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GRACE: In 1990, when Russia had already broken its agreements with Cuba, had ended the protection it was offering Cuba, Fidel Castro saw that things were not going in the socialist direction he had imagined, the revolution was not going in the direction he had imagined.

invited Lula to form a group, to have a meeting and on July 2, 1990, they had a meeting here in São Paulo, and for that reason, because it was the first meeting in São Paulo, they called it the São Paulo Forum the following year. In this event, they summoned all the countries of South and Central America that were of the left and also organizations linked to the left. In addition to these organizations linked to the left, there were also terrorist groups such as the Farc, the ELN [National Liberation Army, from Colombia], Sendero Luminoso [Maoist-inspired, from Peru], in short (…). And its objective, Fidel Castro’s objective when he decided to create this organization was very clear: he said he intended to recreate in Latin America what was lost in Eastern Europe. So, this is how the Sao Paulo Forum was created and, over the years, these meetings became annual, with three meetings of the Sao Paulo Forum working group, which is the one that actually prepares the agenda of what is going to be discussed at the next meeting and the annual meeting is held once in each member country, which is elected at the meeting that is being held… and throughout the year those activities are put into practice, those things that were determined in the agenda of that meeting. Resolutions are issued: there is a general resolution and there are specific resolutions for each country. For example: when there are going to be elections in the countries, then there is an agenda that says: there are going to be elections in Brazil, there are going to be elections in Chile, there are going to be elections I do not know where, and you have to support candidate X. So the candidate mentioned there is the candidate of the São Paulo Forum. And so they managed to place the 15 presidents-members of the organization, of the São Paulo Forum.

 

BRUNO: And how did this support come about, Grace?

GRAÇA: This support came in all the ways you can imagine. For example, they defend non-interference in foreign countries, self-determination of peoples, I don’t know what, they use these expressions a lot, but they don’t fulfill any of them. I do not know if you have seen, but if someone wants to investigate, you will find on YouTube videos of Lula supporting and asking for votes for Hugo Chávez [see point I] and now more recently for Nicolás Maduro [see point XVII]; Chávez making a video to ask for votes for Dilma. Besides, they send study groups, as they call them, to visit universities, to visit organizations, give lectures, give money, money comes in. There is also financial and logistical support. So they are very supportive of each other. Now, they don’t always win, for example, now in El Salvador they lost: there is going to be a second round, but they lost [the first round]. [Actually, they ended up winning the second…] They lost in Paraguay, but they won in Chile: Michele Bachelet came back. So it’s always like that. And in this history they managed to put 15 presidents in governments, at the head of nations, there were already alternations, somebody lost, somebody came back…. And that is why Lula in no way allowed the São Paulo Forum to be talked about in Brazil until the thing was more stabilized, more solidified, until there were enough countries with presidents of the Forum for it to be firm. He himself said that if we were…. There is a statement he made [see point V], I think it was on the 15th anniversary of the São Paulo Forum [yes, it was], he made a comment that said this: if we had (more or less, true, not those words, true), if we had not hidden from the people what we were doing, the São Paulo Forum today would not have an Indian president, a metallurgist president, it would not have I don’t know what, in short, it confirms that it was necessary to hide from the media, to hide from the people what they were doing there in order to make it work.

BRUNO: Exactly. And just to record here, to do justice, Professor Olavo de Carvalho was the one who for years spoke alone in the wilderness about the São Paulo Forum.

BRUNO: Exactly. And I began to study about the São Paulo Forum through Olavo. It was the first contact I had with Professor Olavo, in 1999, in a telephone conversation, he told me about the São Paulo Forum. And that impressed me very much and since then I have dedicated myself body and soul to study the São Paulo Forum. It is an exclusive dedication. And for that I thank Olavo, because until then nobody talked about it. Of course, he was not the precursor, Dr. Graça Wagner was the one who spoke to him, but he was the voice of the media, at the time when he wrote for the newspapers: O Globo, Folha, Jornal da Tarde, Zero Hora, so he was a voice that was in the media and, for that reason, he lost all those jobs, because he spoke what he could not speak.

 

XVI.

Out of Maduro’s Venezuela due to death threats, Carratú warns Latin America about the power of the Forum, from 2min56sec.

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“First of all, my fraternal greetings from abroad. We must continue to fight. And to the brotherly countries and citizens of the continent: be VERY attentive to the penetration of radical leftist groups under the optics of the Sao Paulo Forum, which is trying to take power in most of our countries, lacking only Colombia, Peru and the Republic of Chile. The others have, in one way or another, this type of contact, this type of actions…. What I must emphasize and reaffirm is that Venezuela, since 1992, is in the hands of Fidel Castro…”.

 

XVII.

VIDEO 10 – LULA’S MESSAGE IN SUPPORT OF MADURO

Yes: Lula, how could it be otherwise, also campaigned for Maduro, the current commander of Venezuela’s murderous dictatorship, which at the time of publication of this post already counted 36 dead during the wave of protests in the country. As I wrote here: Dictatorship in the (…) of others is democracy.

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XVIII.

VIDEO 11 – REINALDO AZEVEDO LINKS MENSALÃO AND SÃO PAULO FORUM

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REINALDO AZEVEDO: What they wanted was to create a parallel Congress. So you have, according to the division of the collegiate Montesquieu, you have the division of the three powers. What they wanted was to annul one power. It was the Executive organizing itself, as I understand, in a gang, to buy a slice of the Congress and to have a Congress of B, another Congress, so that you make democracy, the democratic process, irrelevant. This is part of a project, mind you, it is a big one, of the Latin American leftists, who are organized in the São Paulo Forum. This is not paranoia. For a long time, those who talked about the Sao Paulo Forum were Olavo de Carvalho, Reinaldo Azevedo and two or three other crazy people. No. It exists! The São Paulo Forum exists! In each country it has a project. In the countries where they came to power and the institutions were deteriorated, they went directly to undermine democracy. So, this is the case of Venezuela?

 

RICARDO SETTI: And they created false institutions…

REINALDO AZEVEDO [in agreement]: Institutions of the sham.

AUGUSTO NUNES: And it is also setting up the judiciary.

REINALDO AZEVEDO: And the judicial branch as well. There too. So it was in Venezuela, so it is in Ecuador, so it is in Bolivia, and now in Argentina, because all these presidents came to power with their institutions on the floor. In Brazil, Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came to power with a country, despite its weaknesses, its problems, with a country that was reasonably organized institutionally. And, therefore, you cannot undermine the democratic process…. The Supreme Court itself is now saying to these people, “Be careful, we still can’t do what you want.” So it goes another [way]….. Attention: the mensalão is Bolivarianism.

Brazil, you can’t do that. In Brazil, they went another way. In Brazil, they went to buy the Congress. Buy the Congress with public money. Calculate the audacity. I mean… The critics of the PT are often accused, I myself have been accused of this about five hundred times: “You think the PT invented corruption!” No, I don’t think the PT invented corruption. Corruption is very old. Corruption arises along with the political process. I am not saying that the PT invented corruption. What I have always said, I maintain it, is that the PT tried to elevate corruption to the category of

thought. It tried to transform corruption into a category of thought. THIS is new in the Brazilian political process. New: it emerged with them. This is very serious. This is what they tried to do. Corruption here, there, there has always been corruption, and it must be punished exemplarily. Now, [to which Brazil says “no”, to which the STF says “no”…

 

RICARDO SETTI: It is to the power project.

REINALDO AZEVEDO: The project of power conquered in this way cannot. Carmen Lucia has pronounced well today remembering that politics is the only civilized way we have to govern. Now it has to be with ethics, because if it is not with ethics, then it is war, it is mess, it is confrontation.

 

AUGUSTO NUNES: Perfect.

 

XIX.

MINUTES OF THE SÃO PAULO FORUM

Available on the website Mídia Sem Máscara – HERE. SÃO PAULO FORUM SITE – HERE.

OFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE SÃO PAULO FORUM – HERE. SÃO PAULO FORUM SITE – HERE. ARTICLES BY SILVIO GRIMALDO:

– São Paulo Forum, 23 years later, in Gazeta do Povo [08/25/2013].

– The doctors of the São Paulo Forum, in Mídia Sem Máscara [12/09/2013].

 

MORE ON THESE AND MANY OTHER TOPICS….

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20 anos de infiltración comunista en Latinoamérica

2.3.2021  La Redacción.

Abajo ofrecemos la traducción de un artículo bien documentado sobre el proceso de infiltración comunista en América Latina, desde el Foro de Sao Paulo.  Sigue abajo el original traducido:

 

Análisis imparciales de los hechos esenciales de la política y la cultura en Brasil y el resto del mundo, basados en la regla de Lima Barreto: “Búrlate y simplemente búrlate, para que todo se convierta en ridículo”.

Conozca el Foro de São Paulo, el mayor enemigo de Brasil

Por Felipe Moura Brasil.  Actualizado el 31 de julio de 2020, 04:11 – Publicado el 24 de marzo de 2014, 10:29

El mayor enemigo de Brasil y del continente, en las últimas décadas, necesita ser identificado por los hombres de bien de este país, por lo que reúno a continuación lo mínimo que necesitas saber al respecto para informarte y sensibilizar a tus amigos compartiendo este enlace en las redes sociales.

Fundado en 1990 por Lula y Fidel Castro -por idea del propio Lula, como él mismo declaró (lo que nunca es nada fiable) en mayo de 2011 [ver Video 5]-, el “Foro de São Paulo es la mayor organización política que ha existido en América Latina y, sin duda, una de las mayores del mundo”. Todos los líderes de la izquierda del continente participan en ella. Pero no es una organización de izquierdas como las demás. Reúne a más de un centenar de partidos legales y a varias organizaciones criminales vinculadas al narcotráfico y a la industria del secuestro, como las FARC y el MIR chileno, todos comprometidos en una articulación estratégica común y en la búsqueda de ventajas mutuas. Nunca se ha visto en el mundo, en una escala tan gigantesca, una convivencia tan íntima, tan persistente, tan organizada y tan duradera entre la política y el crimen”, como escribió en 2007 el filósofo Olavo de Carvalho, autor del best seller idealizado y organizado por mí, ´O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota´.

Durante casi dos décadas, los periódicos brasileños y los supuestos opositores ocultaron al público en general la existencia del Foro de São Paulo, descubierto por el abogado paulista José Carlos Graça Wagner, que lo denunció públicamente el 1 de septiembre de 1997, y no faltaron quienes tacharon a sus denunciantes de “teóricos de la conspiración”. Desde hace algunos años, cuando el Foro ya había hecho y deshecho gobiernos en toda América Latina, eligiendo presidentes de los países del continente, que son alrededor de 15 miembros de esta organización, su nombre comenzó a aparecer aquí y allá en los informes, como si el Foro fuera una entidad como cualquier otra.

Veamos si realmente lo es… Ven conmigo:

 

I.

VIDEO 1 – 2012 – MENSAJE DE LULA EN APOYO A HUGO CHÁVEZ

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“En 1990, cuando creamos el Foro de São Paulo, ninguno de nosotros imaginó que en sólo dos décadas llegaríamos a donde hemos llegado. En ese momento, la izquierda sólo estaba en el poder en Cuba. Hoy en día, gobernamos un gran número de países e, incluso donde seguimos siendo la oposición, los partidos del Foro tienen una influencia creciente en la vida política y social. Los gobiernos progresistas están cambiando la cara de América Latina. (…) En todo lo que hemos hecho hasta ahora, que ha sido mucho, el Foro y los partidos del Foro han jugado un gran papel que puede ser aún más importante si sabemos mantener nuestra principal característica: la unidad en la diversidad. (…) Bajo el liderazgo de Chávez, el pueblo venezolano ha tenido logros extraordinarios, las clases populares nunca han sido tratadas con tanto respeto, afecto y dignidad. (…) Su victoria será nuestra victoria”.

 

II.

VIDEO 2 – 2008 – HUGO CHÁVEZ CONFIESA: LULA Y FARC JUNTOS EN EL FORO DE 1995

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de São Paulo en 1995 en San Salvador, capital de El Salvador, América Central:

 

“Recibí la invitación para asistir, en 1995, al Foro de São Paulo, que se instaló ese año en San Salvador. (…) En esa ocasión conocí a Lula, entre otros. Y alguien se acercó a mi lugar en la reunión, a una mesa donde estábamos en grupo hablando, y recuerdo que puso su mano aquí [en mi hombro izquierdo] y dijo: ‘Hombre, quiero hablar contigo. Y le dije: “¿Quién es usted?” “Raúl Reyes, uno de los comandantes de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia”. Nos conocimos esa noche, en algún barrio humilde allí en El Salvador. (…) Y entonces se abrió un canal de comunicación y vino aquí (…) y hablamos durante horas y horas. Luego, en una tercera y última ocasión, vino por aquí también”.

 

III.

LA ASOCIACIÓN ENTRE FARC Y PT, SEGÚN EL COMANDANTE RAÚL REYES

En una entrevista concedida a Folha de S. Paulo el 27 de agosto de 2003, Raúl Reyes hizo, entre otras, las siguientes declaraciones: “Folha – ¿Conoces a Lula?

Reyes – Sí, no recuerdo exactamente en qué año lo conocí, fue en San Salvador, en uno de los Foros de São Paulo.

Folha: ¿Habéis tenido una conversación?

Reyes – Sí, nos encargamos de presidir la reunión. Desde entonces, nos reunimos en diferentes lugares y mantuvimos el contacto hasta hace poco. Cuando se convirtió en presidente, ya no pudimos hablar con él.

Folha – ¿Cuándo fue la última vez que habló con él?  Reyes – No recuerdo exactamente. Hace unos tres años.

Folha: Fuera del gobierno, ¿quiénes son los contactos de las FARC en Brasil?

Reyes – Las FARC tienen contactos no sólo en Brasil, sino también con diferentes fuerzas políticas y gobiernos, partidos y movimientos sociales.

 

Folha: ¿Puede nombrar los más importantes?

 

Reyes: Bueno, el PT, y por supuesto, dentro del PT, hay muchas fuerzas; los sin tierra, los sin techo, los estudiantes, los sindicalistas, los intelectuales, los sacerdotes, los historiadores, los periodistas

Folha – ¿Qué intelectuales?

Reyes – [El sociólogo] Emir Sader, frei Betto [asesor especial de Lula] y muchos otros”.

 

IV.

LA MENTIRA DE VALTER POMAR SOBRE LA FARC Y EL FORO

El 18 de agosto de 2010, apareció en Estadão Online:

“El secretario ejecutivo del Foro de São Paulo, Valter Pomar, del Partido de los Trabajadores (PT Partido de los Trabajadores), negó hoy (18) cualquier vínculo de este grupo de partidos de izquierda y centroizquierda latinoamericanos, creado en 1990, con las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc). Las FARC no participan ni han participado nunca en el Foro de São Paulo”.

La Agencia Estado insistió en la cuestión de si algún partido político vinculado a las FARC participó en el Foro en 1990, cuando el grupo fue creado por el PT en la ciudad de São Paulo. Yo estaba allí. Ni siquiera participó como sector del partido”, afirmó. Según él, todos los representantes de Colombia que participan en las reuniones del Foro pertenecen a organizaciones y partidos legales. La secretaria ejecutiva del Foro dijo que este tema volvió a surgir por la declaración del candidato a vicepresidente en la candidatura del aspirante a presidente de Brasil, José Serra, Indio da Costa (DEM), sobre la conexión entre el PT y las FARC”.

Olavo de Carvalho escribió en esta ocasión:

“¿Quieres decir entonces que Raúl Reyes mintió cuando dijo que había presidido una asamblea del Foro junto a Lula? ¿Quiere decir que Hugo Chávez deliraba cuando dijo que se había reunido con Raúl Reyes y Lula en una reunión del Foro? ¿Quiere decir que los contenidos de la revista América Libre son todos falsos? ¿Quiere decir que las actas del Foro las inventé yo, que incluso me di el lujo de escribirlas en español?  ¡Vamos!, vete a lamer jabón”.

 

V.

DISCURSO DE LULA EL 2 DE JULIO DE 2005 – 15 AÑOS DEL FORO

Pronunciado en la celebración de los 15 años de existencia del Foro de São Paulo y reproducido en el sitio web oficial del gobierno, este discurso es, según Olavo de Carvalho, “la confesión explícita de una conspiración contra la soberanía nacional, un crimen infinitamente más grave que todos los delitos de corrupción practicados y encubiertos por el actual gobierno; un crimen que, en sí mismo, justificaría no sólo la destitución sino también la prisión de su autor.”

“Por la existencia del Foro de São Paulo, el compañero Marco Aurelio [García] ha jugado un papel extraordinario en este trabajo de consolidación de lo que iniciamos en 1990… Así fue como nosotros, en enero de 2003, propusimos a nuestro compañero, el presidente Chávez, la creación del Grupo de Amigos para encontrar una solución pacífica que, gracias a Dios, ocurrió en Venezuela. Y sólo fue posible gracias a una acción política de los compañeros.

No fue una acción política de un estado con otro estado, ni de un presidente con otro presidente. Quien lo recuerde, Chávez participó en uno de los foros que celebramos en La Habana. Y gracias a esta relación se pudo construir, con muchas diferencias políticas, la consolidación de lo que ocurrió en Venezuela, con el referéndum que consagró a Chávez como presidente de Venezuela.

Así pudimos actuar junto a otros países con nuestros compañeros del movimiento social, de los partidos de esos países, del movimiento sindical, utilizando siempre la relación construida en el Foro de Sao Paulo para que pudiéramos hablar sin aparentar y sin que la gente entendiera ninguna interferencia política”.

Olavo de Carvalho escribió en esta ocasión:

“(…) El señor presidente reconoce, en definitiva, que sometió al país a decisiones tomadas por extranjeros, reunidos en asambleas de una entidad cuyas acciones el pueblo brasileño no debía conocer ni mucho menos entender.

La humillación activa de la soberanía nacional no puede ser más patente, principalmente cuando se sabe que entre las entidades que participan en estas decisivas reuniones se encuentran organizaciones como el MIR chileno, secuestrador de brasileños, y las FARC, narcoguerrillas colombianas, responsables, según su socio Fernandinho Beira-Mar, de inyectar doscientas toneladas de cocaína anuales en el mercado nacional. (…)”

 

VI.

VIDEO 3 – LULA MIENTE A BORIS CASOY DURANTE LA CAMPAÑA DE 2002

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VII.

ES/FARC/FORO – SECUENCIA DE EVENTOS

El 24 de septiembre de 2007, Olavo de Carvalho publicó el artículo “El peligro soy yo”, en el que vuelve a pedir al lector -ya lo había hecho en “Releyendo noticias”, de 2003- la amabilidad de examinar brevemente esta secuencia de hechos:

“- abril de 2001: El traficante Fernandinho-Beira Mar confiesa que compra e inyecta en el mercado brasileño, anualmente, doscientas toneladas de cocaína de las Farc a cambio de armas contrabandeadas desde el Líbano.

– 7 de diciembre de 2001: El Foro de São Paulo, en coordinación con el movimiento comunista latinoamericano, bajo la presidencia de Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, lanza un manifiesto de apoyo incondicional a las FARC, en el que califica de “terrorismo de Estado” las acciones militares del gobierno colombiano contra esta organización.

– 17 de octubre de 2002: El PT, a través del asesor de asuntos internacionales de la campaña electoral de Lula, Giancarlo Summa, afirma en un comunicado que el PT no tiene nada que ver con las FARC y que el Foro de São Paulo es sólo “un foro de debate, no una estructura de coordinación política internacional”.

– 1 de marzo de 2003: El gobierno, en apoyo al PT, extiende oficialmente su manto protector sobre las FARC, negándose a clasificarlas como organización terrorista, tal y como había solicitado el presidente colombiano Álvaro Uribe.

 

– 24 de agosto de 2003: El comandante de las FARC, Raúl Reyes, informa que el principal contacto del grupo narcoterrorista en Brasil es el PT, y dentro de él, Lula, Frei Betto y Emir Sader.

– 15 de marzo de 2005: estalla el escándalo de los cinco millones de dólares que un agente de las Farc, el falso sacerdote Olivério Medina, dice haber aportado a la campaña electoral de Luís Ignacio Lula da Silva. El asunto se investiga superficialmente y pronto desaparece de las noticias.

– 2 de julio de 2005: Intervención en el 15º. Aniversario del Foro de São Paulo, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva contradice su declaración del 17 de octubre de 2002, confesando que el Foro es una entidad secreta, “construida para que pudiéramos hablar sin que apareciera y sin que la gente entendiera ninguna injerencia política”, ya que esta entidad interfirió activamente en el plebiscito venezolano y que allí, en secreto, él mismo tomó decisiones de gobierno junto con Chávez, Fidel Castro y otros líderes de izquierda, sin informar al Parlamento ni a la opinión pública.

– 9 de abril de 2006: Vítor Santos, jefe de la Agencia Antidroga de la Policía Federal de Río de Janeiro, informa al periódico O Dia de que “dieciocho traficantes del grupo criminal Comando Vermelho -entre ellos al menos uno de Jacarezinho y otro de Morro da Mangueira- se dirigen periódicamente a la frontera brasileña con Colombia para comprar cocaína directamente a los guerrilleros de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC). Los bandidos son objeto de una investigación de la Policía Federal. Han ocupado el espacio que antes ocupaba Luiz Fernando da Costa, conocido como Fernandinho Beira-Mar.

– 12 de mayo de 2006: El PCC de São Paulo lanza atentados que siembran el terror entre la población. El 27 de diciembre le toca al Comando Vermelho hacer lo mismo en Río de Janeiro.

– 18 de julio de 2006: El Supremo Tribunal Federal, bajo la presión de un amplio movimiento político orquestado por el PT, concede asilo político al falso sacerdote Olivério Medina, agente de las FARC.

– 12 de febrero de 2007: Las FARC elogian al PT por salvar al movimiento comunista latinoamericano de la extinción, al fundar el Foro de São Paulo.

 

– Agosto de 2007: En los vídeos preparatorios para su 3er. Congreso, el PT admite que su objetivo es eliminar el capitalismo e implantar un régimen socialista en Brasil; también proporciona un segundo desmentido a la nota de Giancarlo Summa, al confesar que el Foro de São Paulo es “un espacio de articulación estratégica” (sic).

– 19 de septiembre de 2007: Lula ofrece el territorio brasileño para acoger una reunión entre Hugo Chávez y los comandantes de las Farc.

Entre estos hechos ocurrieron otros innumerables, cuya fecha no recuerdo con precisión en este momento, entre ellos el suministro masivo de armas a las FARC por parte del gobierno de Hugo Chávez, una campaña mediática nacional para desmoralizar al analista estratégico estadounidense Constantine Menges, que divulgó la existencia de un eje Lula-Castro-Chávez-Farc, como también los tiroteos entre guerrilleros de las FARC y soldados del ejército brasileño en la Amazonia, las denuncias de que las FARC daban entrenamiento de guerrilla urbana a militantes del MST y, por supuesto, denunció varias asambleas generales y reuniones de grupos de trabajo del Foro de São Paulo.

La existencia de un vínculo profundo, constante y solidario entre el PT y las FARC es un hecho tan probado que quien se empeña en negarlo sólo puede ser un interesado en mantener el secreto o bien un enfermo mental incurable. (…)”

 

VIII.

VIDEO 4 – 14ª REUNIÓN DEL FORO – MONTEVIDEO, 2008

Reportaje de Veja.com sobre el XIV Encuentro del Foro de São Paulo, en Montevideo, en 2008, con la participación de los miembros del PT José Eduardo Martins Cardozo, Marco Aurélio Garcia, Raul Pont, Valter Pomar y Nilmário Miranda; y la repetición de todas las consignas socialistas y gritos revolucionarios.

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IX.

VIDEO 5 – DISCURSO DE LULA EN 2011 – 17ª REUNIÓN DEL FORO

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Extractos del discurso de Lula, en el que recuerda cuándo tuvo la idea del Foro y el día en que conoció a Fidel Castro, admitiendo que Chávez intentó un golpe de Estado en Venezuela, y muestra cómo los participantes del Foro fueron conquistando el poder en toda América Latina, país por país (además, por supuesto, de dar rienda suelta a toda su bravuconería electoral):

“(…) Querido compañero Daniel Ortega, presidente de Nicaragua, y su compañera Rosario [Murillo]; querido compañero [Ricardo] Alarcón [de Quesada], representando aquí al extraordinario pueblo cubano; querido compañero [Nicolás] Maduro, canciller de Venezuela, queridos compañeros latinoamericanos e invitados a este 17º encuentro del Foro de São Paulo.

Siempre me preocupa, querido [José Manuel] Zelaya, participar en estos foros y hablar en portugués. No se entiende nada de lo que digo. Tengo un traductor que es un cubano naturalizado brasileño.

Me gustaría decirles a todos que estoy emocionado porque hace mucho tiempo que no participo en una reunión del Foro de São Paulo. Parece que la última vez fue en el Latin Bar de São Paulo en 2005, pero sólo de pasada. Y recuerdo cuando tuvimos la idea de construir el Foro de Sao Paulo. En 1985, hice una entrevista para un periódico brasileño y dije que no era posible que un obrero metalúrgico llegara a la presidencia votando y disputando democráticamente una elección. Cuatro años después, fui a la primera contienda presidencial, pasé a la segunda ronda [de votación] y terminé las elecciones con el 47% de los votos. El PT salió muy fortalecido de esas elecciones. Los partidos de izquierda que están aquí, los brasileños -no sé si están todos, pero el PCdoB, el PSB, no sé si están… el PDT- que estuvieron junto a mí, salimos todos muy fuertes.

Y entonces surgió la idea, hablando con los compañeros cubanos al principio, de que debíamos hacer un encuentro de la izquierda latinoamericana. Y celebramos nuestra primera reunión en Sao Paulo, en el Hotel Danubio, que ya no existe, en junio de 1990. Había, mi querido Maduro, tantos partidos de izquierda en América Latina y tantas divergencias, que sólo de Argentina asistieron 13 partidos políticos y lo único que unió a los argentinos fueron los goles de Maradona en el Mundial de 1990. Hubo un proceso de desconfianza muy grande entre toda la izquierda latinoamericana. Todavía no habíamos aprendido una lección básica que permitiera a la izquierda llegar al poder. Tenemos a un brillante educador brasileño, que ya ha muerto, uno de los más importantes, que muchos latinoamericanos conocen, Paulo Freire, que decía: ‘Juntar a los diferentes para vencer a los antagónicos’.

Y estábamos aprendiendo a vivir juntos, y estábamos construyendo una relación difícil, complicada y democrática. Recuerdo que una vez en la reunión del Foro de São Paulo en El Salvador, no dejamos participar a Chávez, porque Chávez había intentado un golpe de estado en Venezuela y no le dejamos participar.

Fue muy difícil. Hubo un proceso de gran desconfianza entre nosotros. Y de todo corazón quiero decirles que una de las fuerzas políticas que más contribuyó a que construyéramos lo que hemos construido fueron los compañeros del Partido Comunista de Cuba, que siempre tuvieron la paciencia y la experiencia de ayudarnos. No puedo subestimar el trabajo del compañero Marco Aurelio García, que hoy está en el gobierno, no aquí, pero que participó en casi todas las reuniones del Foro de São Paulo.

Sigo imaginando que algunas personas ya no están entre nosotros. Y quiero saludar a los que no están aquí con nosotros, rindiendo homenaje al compañero Schafik [Handal], del Frente Farabundo Martí, que no está con nosotros. Aplausos.] Somos un poco mayores. Cuando comenzó el Foro, no tenía ningún pelo blanco. Tomaz Borges tenía todo el pelo en la cabeza. [Risas] Daniel Ortega era peludo. [Risas] Es decir: estamos cansados, más que cuando empezamos el Foro. Pero el camino que hemos recorrido no puede perder la importancia de nuestros logros. Estamos hablando de 21 años. Veintiún años es la madurez de un joven o una joven. Y en estos 21 años, miremos la foto de América Latina en 1990 y miremos la foto de América Latina en 2011, y nos daremos cuenta de que un verdadero huracán de democracia ha pasado por nuestro continente. Un verdadero huracán.

Sigo mirando a Sudamérica. Cuando llegué a la presidencia en 2002, sólo estaba Chávez. Incluso entonces, había sufrido un golpe. Luego vino [Néstor] Kirchner. Después de Kirchner vinieron las elecciones en Paraguay. Luego, en Uruguay, con Tabaré [Ramón Vázquez Rosas]. Luego llegó Ecuador. Y seguimos haciendo un cambio extraordinario que culminó con la elección del compañero Evo Morales en Bolivia. Aplausos] Es la demostración más viva de esta evolución política de la izquierda latinoamericana. Aplausos.

Porque estos chicos, y digo chicos porque tuve el placer de participar el 19 de julio de 1980 en el primer aniversario del Frente Sandinista, cuando el orador principal fue Tomás Borges, el día que conocí a Fidel Castro y fuimos a comer langosta a no sé la casa de quién, y recuerdo perfectamente que después de llegar al poder a través de una revolución, en su momento el Frente Sandinista no tuvo miedo y convocó a elecciones democráticas. Ha perdido. Daniel es el único ser humano del planeta que ha perdido más elecciones que yo. He perdido tres elecciones. Daniel perdió cuatro elecciones. [Risas.] Cuatro elecciones.

 

X.

VIDEO 6 – JOSÉ DIRCEU HABLA SOBRE EL FORO EN EL PROGRAMA “PROVOCAÇÕES

Como escribió Olavo de Carvalho en Facebook:

“Llevo años advirtiendo que en el Foro de São Paulo lo más importante no son las asambleas, sino las conversaciones discretas, o reservadas, donde se decide el destino de varios países a espaldas de la población. Ejemplo:”

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ANTÔNIO ABUJAMRA: Hace años se podía imaginar una América Latina así: Fidel, Chávez, Morales, Bachelet, Correa… ¿Quién más? ¡Todos los izquierdistas de Sudamérica! ¿Podría haber predicho que esto iba a suceder?

JOSÉ DIRCEU: Predecir, no. Pero ya estábamos luchando y trabajando por ello. Incluso porque creamos el Foro de São Paulo, que luchó por esto; después también creamos el Grupo de Marbella, porque es el nombre de la ciudad y del hotel donde nos alojamos en Chile, que se reunió, TODOS fueron presidentes… Todos fueron elegidos después presidentes de la República. Todos lo eran. TODO. Ciro Gomes, que participaba, y [el mexicano] Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas aún no han ido. Pero [Vicente] Fox estaba [en México]. Ricardo] Lagos fue [en Chile]. Tabaré Vazquez estuvo [en Uruguay]. [Cita otra, inaudible.] Lula fue. Así que ya ves que no es Chávez, Evo Morales…

 

 

ANTONIO ABUJAMRA [interrumpiendo]: Tabaré, Kirchner… Si esta gente se une, lo cual es un poco difícil, ¿qué pasa con América Latina?

JOSÉ DIRCEU: No, la condición para que América Latina avance es que estos presidentes de estos países se unan. Por eso la información que el Banco del Sur está adelantando… y la consolidación del Mercosur, y la integración energética, el gasoducto, e incluso la zona de libre comercio entre nuestros países… No hay nada más importante para nosotros que la integración latinoamericana. Hoy, el TLCAN, la Unión Europea y el Pacto Asiático: el 70% del comercio es intrabloque. Sólo el 30[%] se exporta fuera del bloque. Aquí, en América Latina o en Sudamérica, sigue siendo el 20 o el 25%. Así que tenemos mucho que integrar.

 

XI.

VIDEO 7 – DISCURSOS DE LULA Y DILMA SOBRE EL FORO Y LA REVOLUCIÓN

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todos los partidos de izquierda de América Latina. No creas que es fácil. Aquí hay compañeros que participan…”

DILMA: “Me siento muy feliz de estar en la carpa de la revolución cubana, del 50 aniversario de la revolución cubana, que fue un acontecimiento histórico en América Latina y tuvo una profunda influencia en mi generación. Así que considero que este momento es especial”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

XII.

VIDEO 8 – DISCURSO DE LULA EN 2013 – LULA EXPLICA LA ESTRATEGIA DEL FORO DE SÃO PAULO PARA LLEGAR AL PODER

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“En 1990, o mejor dicho en 1980, la izquierda latinoamericana no creía posible llegar al poder por la vía de la disputa democrática y sobre todo por la vía electoral. (…) Y la historia se ha encargado de demostrar que la democracia ejercida mediante la participación de las masas puede ser la mejor fuente para que la izquierda llegue al poder en cualquier país del mundo. Veamos la experiencia del compañero Chávez (…). Es importante recordar que gran parte de la élite venezolana no acepta la llegada de Chávez al poder (…), así como no aceptan a Lula en Brasil y a Dilma en Brasil… Y hemos llegado y quiero, compañero de la dirección del Foro de São Paulo, acreditar parte de la llegada de la izquierda al poder en América Latina a la existencia de esta cosa llamada Foro de São Paulo. Fue aquí y le debemos mucho a los compañeros cubanos, le debemos mucho a los compañeros cubanos, porque, al contrario de lo que piensan muchos conservadores, los compañeros cubanos siempre, siempre nos enseñaron que el ejercicio de la tolerancia entre nosotros, la convivencia pacífica en la adversidad entre nosotros, la convivencia entre los distintos sectores de izquierda era la única posibilidad que nos permitía avanzar aquí en este continente. Y esto ha ocurrido y puede ocurrir mucho más, porque ahora tenemos la obligación de no permitir ningún retroceso en los logros que hemos obtenido hasta ahora. Sin contratiempos”.

Por cierto: los “camaradas cubanos”, según Lula, siempre enseñaron el “ejercicio de la tolerancia” y la “convivencia pacífica” entre los diversos sectores de LA IZQUIERDA, por supuesto. Porque, en la Cuba de Fidel y Raúl Castro, la “tolerancia” y el “pacifismo” hacia los opositores políticos se han ejercido siempre con detenciones e incluso fusilamientos.

 

 

 

 

XIII.

CINCO CRÍMENES DEL FORO DE SÃO PAULO

8 de agosto de 2013 a las 10:16 AM Por Olavo de Carvalho

1) Dio cobijo y protección política a las organizaciones terroristas y a las bandas de narcotraficantes y secuestradores que, mientras tanto, extendieron la adicción, el sufrimiento y la muerte por todo el continente, llegando a convertir a Brasil en el país donde más crece el consumo de drogas en América Latina.

2) Al asociar a las entidades criminales con los partidos legales en la búsqueda de ventajas comunes, transformó a estos últimos en socios del crimen, institucionalizando la ilegalidad como una rutina normal de la vida política en docenas de naciones.

3) Ha burlado todas las constituciones de sus países miembros, invitando a cada uno de sus gobiernos a inmiscuirse descaradamente en la política interna de las naciones vecinas, y proporcionando los medios para que lo hagan “sin que nadie se dé cuenta”, como confesó el Sr. Lula, y sin tener que rendir nunca cuentas a sus respectivos electorados.

Así, se rebaja toda la política continental a la condición de una negociación secreta entre grupos interesados, y se convierte la democracia en una fachada engañosa.

5) Gastó mucho dinero en viajes y alojamiento para muchos miles de personas, durante veintitrés años, sin informar nunca, ni al pueblo brasileño ni a los pueblos de las naciones vecinas, ni el origen de la financiación ni los criterios para su aplicación. Hasta hoy no se sabe qué parte de los gastos fue pagada por organizaciones criminales, qué parte fue desviada de los distintos gobiernos, qué parte provino de fortunas internacionales u otras fuentes. Nunca vimos una factura, una orden de servicio, una rendición de cuentas, ni siquiera un simulacro de contabilidad. La cosa tiene la transparencia de una pared de plomo.

 

 

 

 

XIV.

EX EMBAJADOR DE ESTADOS UNIDOS SOBRE LA NECESIDAD DE ESPIAR A BRASIL: “SOLO HAY QUE LEER LAS ACTAS DEL FORO

A continuación, el texto que traduje con motivo de la ocasión. Olavo de Carvalho comentó al respecto: “¿Cómo es posible que una entidad que ni siquiera existe, o que sólo es un inocente club de debate, pueda crear una crisis diplomática de dimensiones mastodónticas? TODOS los que ocultaron o disfrazaron durante casi dos décadas la existencia del Foro de São Paulo son culpables de que esto esté ocurriendo ahora.”

 

POR QUÉ ESPIAMOS A BRASIL

Traducción de Felipe Moura Brasil de la columna de Carlos Alberto Montaner publicada en el Miami Herald el 25 de septiembre de 2013.

La presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, canceló su visita al presidente Obama. Se sintió ofendida porque Estados Unidos espiaba su correo electrónico. No se hace eso con un país amigo. La información, probablemente fiable, fue proporcionada por Edward Snowden desde su refugio en Moscú.

Intrigado, pregunté a un antiguo embajador de EE.UU.: “¿Por qué lo hicieron?”. Su explicación fue duramente franca:

“Desde el punto de vista de Washington, el gobierno brasileño no es precisamente amigable. Por definición e históricamente, Brasil es un país amigo que estuvo a nuestro lado durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y Corea, pero su actual gobierno no lo es”.

El embajador y yo somos viejos amigos. “¿Puedo revelar su nombre?”, le pregunté. “No”, respondió. “Eso me crearía un gran problema. Pero puedes transcribir nuestra conversación”. Eso es lo que haré aquí.

“Sólo hay que leer las actas del Foro de São Paulo y observar la conducta del gobierno brasileño”, dijo. “Los amigos de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff y el Partido de los Trabajadores son los enemigos de Estados Unidos: la Venezuela chavista, primero con (Hugo) Chávez y ahora con (Nicolás) Maduro; la Cuba de Raúl Castro; Irán; la Bolivia de Evo Morales; la Libia de la época de Gadafi; la Siria de Bashar Assad.

 

“En casi todos los conflictos, el gobierno brasileño está de acuerdo con las líneas políticas de Rusia y China, frente a la perspectiva del Departamento de Estado de EE.UU. y la Casa Blanca. La familia ideológica a la que más se parece es la de los BRICS, con la que intenta conciliar su política exterior. Los BRICS son Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica.

“La inmensa nación sudamericana no ha manifestado ni manifiesta la más mínima voluntad de defender los principios democráticos que se violan sistemáticamente en Cuba. Por el contrario, el ex presidente Lula da Silva suele llevar inversores a la isla para reforzar la dictadura de los Castro. El dinero invertido por los brasileños en el desarrollo del mega puerto del Mariel, cerca de La Habana, se estima en 1.000 millones de dólares.

cara alterada quirúrgicamente. Regresó a Brasil con una nueva identidad (Carlos Henrique Gouveia de Mello, un comerciante judío) y permaneció en ese papel hasta que se restauró la democracia. De la mano de Lula, colocó a Brasil entre los principales colaboradores de la dictadura cubana. Cayó en desgracia por corrupto, pero nunca retrocedió un ápice en sus preferencias ideológicas y en su complicidad con La Habana.

“Algo similar ocurre con el profesor Marco Aurelio García, actual asesor de política exterior de Dilma Rousseff. Es un anti iraní contumaz, incluso peor que Dirceu, porque es más inteligente y ha sido mejor entrenado. Hará todo lo que pueda para despistar a los Estados Unidos.

“Para Itamaraty -un Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores famoso por la calidad de sus diplomáticos, generalmente políglotas y bien formados- la Carta Democrática firmada en Lima en 2001 es sólo un papel sin importancia. El gobierno simplemente ignora los fraudes electorales cometidos en Venezuela y Nicaragua, y se muestra totalmente indiferente ante cualquier abuso contra la libertad de prensa.

“Pero eso no es todo. Hay otros dos temas que hacen que Estados Unidos quiera estar informado de todo lo que ocurre en Brasil porque, de una forma u otra, afectan a la seguridad de Estados Unidos: la corrupción y las drogas.

“Brasil es un país notoriamente corrupto y estas malas prácticas afectan a las leyes estadounidenses de dos maneras: cuando los brasileños utilizan el sistema financiero de Estados Unidos y cuando compiten deslealmente con las empresas estadounidenses recurriendo a sobornos o comisiones ilegales.

 

“El tema de las drogas es diferente. La producción de coca boliviana se ha quintuplicado desde que Evo Morales llegó a la presidencia, y el distribuidor de esta sustancia es Brasil. Casi todo acaba en Europa, y nuestros aliados quieren información. Esta información está a veces en manos de los políticos brasileños”.

Mis dos últimas preguntas son inevitables. ¿Apoyará Washington la candidatura de Brasil a miembro permanente del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU?

“Si me preguntas, no”, dice. “Ya tenemos dos oponentes permanentes: Rusia y China. No necesitamos un tercero”.

Para terminar, ¿seguirá Estados Unidos espiando a Brasil?

“Absolutamente”, me dice. “Es nuestra responsabilidad ante la sociedad estadounidense”. Creo que doña Dilma debería cambiar su correo electrónico con frecuencia.

 

XV.

AUDIO – GRAÇA SALGUEIRO EXPLICA LA HISTORIA DEL FORO

En una excelente entrevista a Bruno Garschagen sobre la asesina dictadura chavista de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela, en el Podcast 112 de Mises Brasil, la autora del ineludible blog NotaLatina, Graça Salgueiro, hace un resumen del Foro de São Paulo, a partir del minuto 30, que transcribo a continuación.

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GRACE: En 1990, cuando Rusia ya había roto sus acuerdos con Cuba, había terminado la protección que le ofrecía a Cuba, Fidel Castro vio que las cosas no iban en la dirección socialista que él imaginaba, la revolución

invitó a Lula a formar un grupo, a tener una reunión y el 2 de julio de 1990, tuvieron una reunión aquí en São Paulo, y por eso, porque fue la primera reunión en São Paulo, la llamaron Foro de São Paulo al año siguiente. En este evento, convocaron a todos los países de Sudamérica y Centroamérica que eran de izquierda y también a organizaciones vinculadas a la izquierda. Además de estas organizaciones vinculadas a la izquierda, también había grupos terroristas como las Farc, el ELN [Ejército de Liberación Nacional, de Colombia], Sendero Luminoso [de inspiración maoísta, de Perú], en fin (…). Y su objetivo, el objetivo de Fidel Castro cuando decidió crear esta organización fue muy claro: dijo que pretendía recrear en América Latina lo que se perdió en Europa del Este. Entonces, así se creó el Foro de Sao Paulo y, con el paso de los años, estas reuniones se convirtieron en anuales, con tres reuniones del grupo de trabajo del Foro de Sao Paulo, que es el que realmente prepara la agenda de lo que se va a discutir en la siguiente reunión y la reunión anual se hace una vez en cada país miembro, que se elige en la reunión que se está realizando… y a lo largo del año se ponen en práctica esas actividades, esas cosas que se determinaron en la agenda de esa reunión. Salen las resoluciones: hay una resolución general y hay resoluciones específicas para cada país. Por ejemplo: cuando va a haber elecciones en los países, entonces hay una agenda que dice: va a haber elecciones en Brasil, va a haber elecciones en Chile, va a haber elecciones no sé dónde, y hay que apoyar al candidato X. Así que el candidato mencionado allí es el candidato del Foro de São Paulo. Y así consiguieron colocar a los 15 presidentes-miembros de la organización, del Foro de São Paulo.

 

BRUNO: ¿Y este apoyo cómo se dio, Grace?

GRAÇA: Este apoyo llegó de todas las formas que puedas imaginar. Por ejemplo, defienden la no injerencia en países ajenos, la autodeterminación de los pueblos, no sé qué, usan mucho estas expresiones, pero no cumplen ninguna. No sé si han visto, pero si alguien quiere investigar, encontrarán en YouTube videos de Lula apoyando y pidiendo votos para Hugo Chávez [ver punto I] y ahora más recientemente para Nicolás Maduro [ver punto XVII]; Chávez haciendo un video para pedir votos para Dilma. Además, envían grupos de estudio, como ellos los llaman, a visitar universidades, a visitar organizaciones, dan conferencias, dan dinero, el dinero entra. También hay apoyo financiero y logístico. Así que se apoyan mucho unos a otros. Ahora bien, no siempre ganan, por ejemplo, ahora en El Salvador perdieron: va a haber una segunda ronda, pero perdieron [la primera ronda]. [En realidad, acabaron ganando la segunda…] Perdieron en Paraguay, pero ganaron en Chile: Michele Bachelet volvió. Así que siempre es así. Y en esta historia lograron poner 15 presidentes en los gobiernos, al frente de las naciones, ya hubo alternancias, ya perdió alguien, ya regresó alguien… Y fue por eso que Lula de ninguna manera permitió que se hablara del Foro de São Paulo en Brasil hasta que la cosa estuviera más estabilizada, más solidificada, hasta que hubiera suficientes países con presidentes del Foro para que fuera firme. Él mismo dijo que si fuéramos… Hay una declaración que hizo [ver punto V], creo que fue en el 15º aniversario del Foro de São Paulo [sí, fue], hizo un comentario que decía esto: si hubiéramos (más o menos, cierto, no esas palabras, cierto), si no hubiéramos ocultado al pueblo lo que estábamos haciendo, el Foro de São Paulo hoy no tendría un presidente indio, un presidente metalúrgico, no tendría no sé qué, en fin, confirma que fue necesario ocultar a los medios, ocultar al pueblo lo que estaban haciendo allí para poder hacerlo funcionar.

BRUNO: Exactamente. Y sólo para registrar aquí, para hacer justicia, el profesor Olavo de Carvalho fue quien durante años habló solo en el desierto sobre el Foro de São Paulo.

Exactamente. Y empecé a estudiar sobre el Foro de São Paulo a través de Olavo. Fue el primer contacto que tuve con el profesor Olavo, en 1999, en una conversación telefónica, me habló del Foro de São Paulo. Y eso me impresionó mucho y desde entonces me he dedicado en cuerpo y alma a estudiar el Foro de São Paulo. Es una dedicación exclusiva. Y por eso le doy las gracias a Olavo, porque hasta entonces nadie hablaba de ello. Por supuesto, no fue el precursor, el Dr. Graça Wagner fue el que le habló, pero fue la voz de los medios de comunicación, en la época en que escribía para los periódicos: O Globo, Folha, Jornal da Tarde, Zero Hora, así que era una voz que estaba en los medios de comunicación y, por eso, perdió todos esos trabajos, porque hablaba lo que no podía hablar.

 

XVI.

Fuera de la Venezuela de Maduro por amenazas de muerte, Carratú da el aviso a América Latina sobre el poder del Foro, a partir de 2min56seg.

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“En primer lugar, mis saludos fraternales desde el extranjero. Debemos seguir luchando. Y a los países hermanos y a los ciudadanos del continente: estén MUY atentos a la penetración de grupos radicales de izquierda bajo la óptica del Foro de Sao Paulo, que intenta tomar el poder en la mayoría de nuestros países, faltando sólo Colombia, Perú y la República de Chile. Los demás tienen, de una u otra manera, este tipo de contacto, este tipo de acciones… Lo que sí debo recalcar y debo reafirmar es que Venezuela, desde 1992, está en manos de Fidel Castro…”

 

XVII.

VIDEO 10 – MENSAJE DE LULA EN APOYO A MADURO

Sí: Lula, como no podía ser de otra manera, también hizo campaña por Maduro, el actual comandante de la dictadura asesina de Venezuela, que en el momento de la publicación de este post ya contaba con 36 muertos durante la ola de protestas en el país. Como escribí aquí: La dictadura en la (…) de otros es la democracia.

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XVIII.

VIDEO 11 – REINALDO AZEVEDO ENLAZA MENSALÃO Y SÃO PAULO FORUM

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REINALDO AZEVEDO: Lo que querían era crear un Congreso paralelo. Así que tienes, según la división del colegiado Montesquieu, tienes la división de los tres poderes. Lo que querían era anular un poder. Era el Ejecutivo organizándose, según tengo entendido, en pandilla, para comprar una tajada del Congreso y tener un Congreso de B, otro Congreso, de manera que haces irrelevante la democracia, el proceso democrático. Esto es parte de un proyecto, ojo, es grande, de los izquierdistas latinoamericanos, que se organizan en el Foro de São Paulo. Esto no es paranoia. Durante mucho tiempo, los que hablaban del Foro de Sao Paulo eran Olavo de Carvalho, Reinaldo Azevedo y otros dos o tres locos. No. ¡Existe! ¡El Foro de São Paulo existe! En cada país tiene un proyecto. En los países en los que llegaron al poder y las instituciones estaban deterioradas, fueron directamente a socavar la democracia. Entonces, este es el caso de Venezuela…

 

RICARDO SETTI: Y crearon instituciones falsas…

REINALDO AZEVEDO [de acuerdo]: Instituciones de la farsa.

AUGUSTO NUNES: Y también está estableciendo el poder judicial.

REINALDO AZEVEDO: Y el Poder Judicial también. Ahí también. Así fue en Venezuela, así es en Ecuador, así es en Bolivia, y ahora en Argentina, porque todos estos presidentes llegaron al poder con sus instituciones por el suelo. En Brasil, el Sr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva llegó al poder con un país, a pesar de sus debilidades, sus problemas, con un país razonablemente organizado institucionalmente. Y, por lo tanto, no se puede socavar el proceso democrático… El propio Tribunal Supremo está diciendo ahora a esta gente: “Tened cuidado, todavía no podemos hacer lo que queréis”. Entonces se va a otro [camino]… Atención: el mensalão es el bolivarianismo

Brasil, no puedes hacer eso. En Brasil, fueron por otro camino. En Brasil, fueron a comprar el Congreso. Comprar el Congreso con dinero público. Calcula la audacia. Quiero decir… A los críticos del PT se les acusa a menudo, yo mismo he sido acusado de esto unas quinientas veces: “¡Ustedes creen que el PT inventó la corrupción!” No, no creo que el PT haya inventado la corrupción. La corrupción es muy antigua. La corrupción surge junto con el proceso político. No digo que el PT haya inventado la corrupción. Lo que siempre he dicho, lo mantengo, es que el PT intentó elevar la corrupción a la categoría de

pensamiento. Intentó transformar la corrupción en una categoría de pensamiento. ESTO es nuevo en el proceso político brasileño. Nuevo: surgió con ellos. Esto es muy serio. Esto es lo que intentaron hacer. Corrupción aquí, allí, siempre ha habido corrupción, y hay que castigarla ejemplarmente. Ahora bien, [a lo que Brasil dice “no”, a lo que el STF dice “no”…

 

RICARDO SETTI: Es al proyecto de poder.

REINALDO AZEVEDO: El proyecto de poder conquistado así no puede. Carmen Lucia se ha pronunciado bien hoy recordando que la política es la única forma civilizada que tenemos de gobernar. Ahora tiene que ser con ética, porque si no es con ética, entonces es guerra, es lío, es enfrentamiento.

 

AUGUSTO NUNES: Perfecto.

 

XIX.

ACTA DEL FORO DE SÃO PAULO

Disponible en el sitio web Mídia Sem Máscara – AQUÍ. SITIO DEL FORO DE SÃO PAULO – AQUÍ.

MIEMBROS OFICIALES DEL FORO DE SÃO PAULO – AQUÍ. SITIO DEL FORO DE SÃO PAULO – AQUÍ. ARTÍCULOS DE SILVIO GRIMALDO:

– Foro de São Paulo, 23 años después, en Gazeta do Povo [25/08/2013].

– Los médicos del Foro de São Paulo, en Mídia Sem Máscara [12/09/2013].

 

MÁS SOBRE ESTOS Y OTROS MUCHOS TEMAS…

…en nuestro best seller: Lo mínimo que hay que saber para no ser un idiota.

 

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Es justo. ¿Es suficiente para hoy? Añadiré más información en cualquier momento.

 

Ahora, en lugar de copiar y pegar todo lo que he transcrito, organizado y explicado aquí, comparte el enlace de esta página [https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/felipe-moura-brasil/2014/03/24/conheca-o-foro-de-sao-paulo-o-maior-inimigo- do-brasil] y da crédito al autor, ¿vale? Eduquemos juntos a nuestros amigos sobre el mayor enemigo de Brasil. Gracias.

 

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20 years of communist infiltration in Latin America

2.3.2021 The Editor.

 

Below we offer the translation of a well documented article on the process of communist infiltration in Latin America, from the Sao Paulo Forum.  The translated original follows below:

 

Unbiased analysis of the essential facts of politics and culture in Brazil and the rest of the world, based on Lima Barreto’s rule: “Mock and simply mock, so that everything becomes ridiculous”.

 

Meet the São Paulo Forum, Brazil’s greatest enemy

 

By Felipe Moura Brazil.  Updated July 31, 2020, 04:11 – Published March 24, 2014, 10:29 am.

 

The greatest enemy of Brazil and of the continent, in the last decades, needs to be identified by the good men of this country, so I gather below the minimum you need to know about it to inform yourself and raise awareness among your friends by sharing this link on social networks.

Founded in 1990 by Lula and Fidel Castro – by Lula’s own idea, as he himself declared (which is never at all reliable) in May 2011 [see Video 5] -, the “São Paulo Forum is the largest political organization that has ever existed in Latin America and, without a doubt, one of the largest in the world”. All the left-wing leaders of the continent participate in it. But it is not a left-wing organization like any other. It brings together more than a hundred legal parties and several criminal organizations linked to drug trafficking and the kidnapping industry, such as the FARC and the Chilean MIR, all committed to a common strategic articulation and the search for mutual advantages. Never has the world seen, on such a gigantic scale, such an intimate, so persistent, so organized and so long-lasting coexistence between politics and crime”, as the philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, author of the best seller idealized and organized by me, ‘O mínimo que você precisa saber para não ser um idiota’ (The minimum you need to know to not be an idiot), wrote in 2007.

For almost two decades, Brazilian newspapers and alleged opponents hid from the general public the existence of the São Paulo Forum, discovered by São Paulo lawyer José Carlos Graça Wagner, who publicly denounced it on September 1, 1997, and there was no shortage of those who branded its denouncers as “conspiracy theorists”. Some years ago, when the Forum had already made and unmade governments throughout Latin America, electing presidents of the countries of the continent, which are about 15 members of this organization, his name began to appear here and there in the reports, as if the Forum were an entity like any other.

Let’s see if it really is… Come with me:

 

I.

VIDEO 1 – 2012 – MESSAGE FROM LULA IN SUPPORT OF HUGO CHAVEZ

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“In 1990, when we created the São Paulo Forum, none of us imagined that in just two decades we would get to where we have arrived. At that time, the left was only in power in Cuba. Today, we govern a large number of countries and, even where we remain the opposition, Forum parties have a growing influence in political and social life. Progressive governments are changing the face of Latin America. (…) In everything we have done so far, which has been a lot, the Forum and the Forum parties have played a great role that can be even more important if we know how to maintain our main characteristic: unity in diversity. (…) Under Chávez’ leadership, the Venezuelan people have had extraordinary achievements, the popular classes have never been treated with so much respect, affection and dignity. (…) His victory will be our victory”.

 

II.

VIDEO 2 – 2008 – HUGO CHAVEZ CONFESSES: LULA AND FARC TOGETHER IN THE 1995 FORUM

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of São Paulo in 1995 in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, Central America:

 

“I received the invitation to attend, in 1995, the São Paulo Forum, which was installed that year in San Salvador. (…) On that occasion I met Lula, among others. And someone came up to my place at the meeting, to a table where we were in a group talking, and I remember that he put his hand here [on my left shoulder] and said: ‘Man, I want to talk to you. ‘ And I said, ‘Who are you?’ ‘Raul Reyes, one of the commanders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.’ We met that night, in some humble neighborhood there in El Salvador. (…) And then a channel of communication was opened and he came here (…) and we talked for hours and hours. Then, on a third and last occasion, he came here too”.

 

III.

THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN FARC AND PT, ACCORDING TO COMMANDER RAÚL REYES

In an interview granted to Folha de S. Paulo on August 27, 2003, Raul Reyes made, among others, the following statements: “Folha – Do you know Lula?

Reyes: Yes, I don’t remember exactly what year I met him, it was in San Salvador, at one of the São Paulo Forums.

Folha: Did you have a conversation?

Reyes: Yes, we were in charge of chairing the meeting. Since then, we met in different places and kept in touch until recently. When he became president, we could no longer talk to him.

Folha – When was the last time you spoke to him?  Reyes – I don’t remember exactly. About three years ago.

Folha: Outside the government, who are the FARC’s contacts in Brazil?

Reyes: The FARC has contacts not only in Brazil, but also with different political forces and governments, parties and social movements.

 

Folha: Can you name the most important ones?

 

Reyes: Well, the PT, and of course, within the PT, there are many forces; the landless, the homeless, students, trade unionists, intellectuals, priests, historians, journalists….

Folha – What intellectuals?

Reyes – [Sociologist] Emir Sader, frei Betto [Lula’s special advisor] and many others”.

 

IV.

VALTER POMAR’S LIE ABOUT THE FARC AND THE FORUM

On August 18, 2010, it appeared in Estadão Online:

“The executive secretary of the São Paulo Forum, Valter Pomar, of the Workers’ Party (PT Partido dos Trabalhadores), denied today (18) any link of this group of Latin American left and center-left parties, created in 1990, with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The FARC does not participate and has never participated in the São Paulo Forum”.

Agencia Estado insisted on the question of whether any political party linked to the FARC participated in the Forum in 1990, when the group was created by the PT in the city of São Paulo. I was there. It did not even participate as a sector of the party,” he said. According to him, all Colombian representatives participating in the Forum meetings belong to legal organizations and parties. The executive secretary of the Forum said that this issue came up again because of the statement of the vice-presidential candidate in the candidacy of the Brazilian presidential aspirant, José Serra, Indio da Costa (DEM), about the connection between the PT and the FARC”.

Olavo de Carvalho wrote on this occasion:

“Do you mean then that Raul Reyes lied when he said he had presided over a Forum assembly together with Lula? Do you mean then that Hugo Chavez was delirious when he said he had met with Raul Reyes and Lula in a Forum meeting? Do you mean then that the contents of the magazine America Libre are all false? Do you mean then that the minutes of the Forum were invented by me, that I even had the luxury of writing them in Spanish? Go on, go lick soap!”.

 

V.

LULA’S SPEECH ON JULY 2, 2005 – 15 YEARS OF THE FORUM

Delivered at the celebration of the 15 years of existence of the São Paulo Forum and reproduced on the official government website, this speech is, according to Olavo de Carvalho, “the explicit confession of a conspiracy against national sovereignty, a crime infinitely more serious than all the crimes of corruption practiced and covered up by the current government; a crime that, in itself, would justify not only the impeachment but also the imprisonment of its author.”

“Because of the existence of the São Paulo Forum, comrade Marco Aurelio [Garcia] has played an extraordinary role in this work of consolidation of what we started in 1990…. That is how we, in January 2003, proposed to our comrade, President Chávez, the creation of the Group of Friends to find a peaceful solution which, thank God, happened in Venezuela. And it was only possible thanks to a political action of the comrades.

It was not a political action of a state with another state, nor of a president with another president. Whoever remembers, Chavez participated in one of the forums we held in Havana. And thanks to this relationship it was possible to build, with many political differences, the consolidation of what happened in Venezuela, with the referendum that consecrated Chavez as President of Venezuela.

Thus we were able to act together with other countries with our comrades of the social movement, of the parties of those countries, of the union movement, always using the relationship built in the Sao Paulo Forum so that we could speak without appearing and without people understanding any political interference”.

Olavo de Carvalho wrote on this occasion:

“(…) Mr. President recognizes, in short, that he subjected the country to decisions made by foreigners, gathered in assemblies of an entity whose actions the Brazilian people were not supposed to know, much less understand.

The active humiliation of national sovereignty could not be more evident, especially when it is known that among the entities participating in these decisive meetings are organizations such as the Chilean MIR, kidnappers of Brazilians, and the FARC, Colombian narco-guerrillas, responsible, according to their partner Fernandinho Beira-Mar, for injecting two hundred tons of cocaine annually into the national market. (…)”

 

VI.

VIDEO 3 – LULA LIES TO BORIS CASOY DURING THE 2002 CAMPAIGN

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VII.

EN/FARC/FORUM – SEQUENCE OF EVENTS

On September 24, 2007, Olavo de Carvalho published the article “The danger is me”, in which he again asks the reader -he had already done so in “Rereading news”, from 2003- the kindness of briefly examining this sequence of events:

“- April 2001: Trafficker Fernandinho-Beira Mar confesses to buying and injecting into the Brazilian market, annually, two hundred tons of cocaine from the Farc in exchange for weapons smuggled from Lebanon.

– December 7, 2001: The São Paulo Forum, in coordination with the Latin American communist movement, under the presidency of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, launches a manifesto of unconditional support to the FARC, in which it qualifies as “State terrorism” the military actions of the Colombian government against this organization.

– October 17, 2002: The PT, through Giancarlo Summa, international affairs advisor to Lula’s electoral campaign, states in a communiqué that the PT has nothing to do with the FARC and that the São Paulo Forum is only “a forum for debate, not a structure for international political coordination”.

– March 1, 2003: The government, in support of the PT, officially extends its protective mantle over the FARC, refusing to classify it as a terrorist organization, as requested by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

 

– August 24, 2003: FARC commander Raul Reyes informs that the main contact of the narco-terrorist group in Brazil is the PT, and within it, Lula, Frei Betto and Emir Sader.

– March 15, 2005: the scandal of the five million dollars that a FARC agent, the false priest Olivério Medina, claims to have contributed to Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva’s electoral campaign breaks out. The matter is superficially investigated and soon disappears from the news.

– July 2, 2005: Speech at the 15th. Anniversary of the São Paulo Forum, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva contradicts his statement of October 17, 2002, confessing that the Forum is a secret entity, “built so that we could speak without it appearing and without people understanding any political interference”, since this entity actively interfered in the Venezuelan plebiscite and that there, in secret, he himself made government decisions together with Chávez, Fidel Castro and other leftist leaders, without informing Parliament or public opinion.

– April 9, 2006: Vítor Santos, head of the Anti-Drug Agency of the Federal Police of Rio de Janeiro, informs the newspaper O Dia that “eighteen traffickers of the criminal group Comando Vermelho -among them at least one from Jacarezinho and another from Morro da Mangueira- periodically go to the Brazilian border with Colombia to buy cocaine directly from the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The bandits are the subject of a Federal Police investigation. They have occupied the space formerly occupied by Luiz Fernando da Costa, known as Fernandinho Beira-Mar.

– May 12, 2006: The PCC in São Paulo launches attacks that sow terror among the population. On December 27 it is the Red Command’s turn to do the same in Rio de Janeiro.

– July 18, 2006: The Federal Supreme Court, under pressure from a broad political movement orchestrated by the PT, grants political asylum to the false priest Olivério Medina, a FARC agent.

– February 12, 2007: The FARC praises the PT for saving the Latin American communist movement from extinction by founding the São Paulo Forum.

 

– August 2007: In the preparatory videos for its 3rd Congress, the PT admits that its objective is to eliminate capitalism and implant a socialist regime in Brazil; it also provides a second denial to Giancarlo Summa’s note, by confessing that the São Paulo Forum is “a space of strategic articulation” (sic).

– September 19, 2007: Lula offers Brazilian territory to host a meeting between Hugo Chávez and FARC commanders.

Between these events there were countless others, whose date I do not remember precisely at this moment, among them the massive supply of weapons to the FARC by the government of Hugo Chávez, a national media campaign to demoralize the American strategic analyst Constantine Menges, who divulged the existence of a Lula-Castro-Chávez-Farc axis, as well as the shootings between FARC guerrillas and Brazilian army soldiers in the Amazon, the allegations that the FARC provided urban guerrilla training to MST militants and, of course, denounced several general assemblies and working group meetings of the São Paulo Forum.

The existence of a deep, constant and solidary link between the PT and the FARC is such a proven fact that whoever insists on denying it can only be interested in keeping it a secret or else an incurably mentally ill person. (…)”

 

VIII.

VIDEO 4 – 14TH MEETING OF THE FORUM – MONTEVIDEO, 2008

Report by Veja.com on the XIV Meeting of the São Paulo Forum, in Montevideo, in 2008, with the participation of PT members José Eduardo Martins Cardozo, Marco Aurélio Garcia, Raul Pont, Valter Pomar and Nilmário Miranda; and the repetition of all the socialist slogans and revolutionary cries.

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IX.

VIDEO 5 – LULA’S SPEECH IN 2011 – 17TH FORUM MEETING

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Excerpts from Lula’s speech, in which he recalls when he had the idea of the Forum and the day he met Fidel Castro, admitting that Chavez attempted a coup d’état in Venezuela, and shows how the Forum participants were conquering power throughout Latin America, country by country (besides, of course, giving free rein to all their electoral bravado):

“(…) Dear comrade Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, and his partner Rosario [Murillo]; dear comrade [Ricardo] Alarcón [de Quesada], representing here the extraordinary Cuban people; dear comrade [Nicolás] Maduro, chancellor of Venezuela, dear Latin American comrades and guests at this 17th meeting of the São Paulo Forum.

It always worries me, dear [José Manuel] Zelaya, to participate in these forums and speak in Portuguese. Nothing I say is understood. I have a translator who is a naturalized Brazilian Cuban.

I would like to tell everyone that I am excited because it has been a long time since I have participated in a meeting of the São Paulo Forum. It seems that the last time was at the Latin Bar in São Paulo in 2005, but only in passing. And I remember when we had the idea of building the São Paulo Forum. In 1985, I did an interview for a Brazilian newspaper and I said that it was not possible for a metalworker to reach the presidency by voting and democratically contesting an election. Four years later, I went to the first presidential contest, passed to the second round [of voting] and finished the elections with 47% of the votes. The PT came out of those elections very strong. The left-wing parties that are here, the Brazilians – I don’t know if they are all here, but the PCdoB, the PSB, I don’t know if they are… the PDT – that were with me, we all came out very strong.

And then the idea came up, talking with the Cuban comrades at the beginning, that we should have a meeting of the Latin American left. And we held our first meeting in Sao Paulo, at the Hotel Danubio, which no longer exists, in June 1990. There were, my dear Maduro, so many left-wing parties in Latin America and so many divergences, that only from Argentina 13 political parties attended and the only thing that united the Argentines were Maradona’s goals in the 1990 World Cup. There was a process of great distrust among the entire Latin American left. We had not yet learned a basic lesson that would allow the left to come to power. We have a brilliant Brazilian educator, who has already died, one of the most important educators that many Latin Americans know, Paulo Freire, who said: ‘Bring together the different to overcome the antagonistic’.

And we were learning to live together, and we were building a difficult, complicated and democratic relationship. I remember once in the meeting of the São Paulo Forum in El Salvador, we did not allow Chávez to participate, because Chávez had attempted a coup d’état in Venezuela and we did not allow him to participate.

It was very difficult. There was a process of great distrust between us. And from the bottom of my heart I want to tell you that one of the political forces that contributed the most to our building what we have built were the comrades of the Communist Party of Cuba, who always had the patience and experience to help us. I cannot underestimate the work of comrade Marco Aurelio Garcia, who today is in the government, not here, but who participated in almost all the meetings of the São Paulo Forum.

I still imagine that some people are no longer with us. And I want to salute those who are not here with us, paying tribute to comrade Schafik [Handal], of the Farabundo Martí Front, who is not with us. Applause] We are a little older. When the Forum began, I didn’t have any white hair. Tomaz Borges had all the hair on his head. Daniel Ortega was hairy. [laughs] I mean: we are tired, more than when we started the Forum. But the road we have traveled cannot lose the importance of our achievements. We are talking about 21 years. Twenty-one years is the maturity of a young man or woman. And in these 21 years, let us look at the picture of Latin America in 1990 and let us look at the picture of Latin America in 2011, and we will realize that a real hurricane of democracy has passed through our continent. A real hurricane.

I keep looking at South America. When I became President in 2002, there was only Chavez. Even then, he had suffered a coup. Then came [Néstor] Kirchner. After Kirchner came the elections in Paraguay. Then, in Uruguay, with Tabaré [Ramón Vázquez Rosas]. Then came Ecuador. And we continued to make an extraordinary change that culminated with the election of comrade Evo Morales in Bolivia. Applause] It is the most vivid demonstration of this political evolution of the Latin American left. Applause.

Because these guys, and I say guys because I had the pleasure of participating on July 19, 1980 in the first anniversary of the Sandinista Front, when the main speaker was Tomas Borges, the day I met Fidel Castro and we went to eat lobster at I don’t know whose house, and I remember perfectly well that after coming to power through a revolution, at the time the Sandinista Front was not afraid and called for democratic elections. He lost. Daniel is the only human being on the planet who has lost more elections than me. I have lost three elections. Daniel lost four elections. [Laughter.] Four elections.

 

X.

VIDEO 6 – JOSÉ DIRCEU TALKS ABOUT THE FORUM IN THE PROGRAM “PROVOCAÇÕES

As Olavo de Carvalho wrote on Facebook:

“I have been warning for years that in the São Paulo Forum the most important thing is not the assemblies, but the discreet, or secretive talks, where the destiny of several countries is decided behind the backs of the population. Example:”

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ANTÔNIO ABUJAMRA: Years ago you could imagine a Latin America like this: Fidel, Chávez, Morales, Bachelet, Correa? Who else, all the leftists of South America! Could you have predicted that this would happen?

JOSÉ DIRCEU: Not to predict. But we were already fighting and working for it. Even because we created the São Paulo Forum, which fought for this; then we also created the Marbella Group, because it is the name of the city and of the hotel where we stayed in Chile, which met, ALL were presidents…. They were all later elected presidents of the Republic. They all were. ALL. Ciro Gomes, who was participating, and [Mexico’s] Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas have not gone yet. But [Vicente] Fox was [in Mexico]. Ricardo] Lagos was [in Chile]. Tabaré Vazquez was [in Uruguay]. [Cites another, inaudible.] Lula went. So you see that it is not Chávez, Evo Morales….

 

 

ANTONIO ABUJAMRA [interrupting]: Tabaré, Kirchner… If these people unite, which is a bit difficult, what happens with Latin America?

JOSÉ DIRCEU: No, the condition for Latin America to move forward is that these presidents of these countries unite. That is why the information that the Bank of the South is advancing… and the consolidation of Mercosur, and energy integration, the gas pipeline, and even the free trade zone between our countries…. There is nothing more important for us than Latin American integration. Today, NAFTA, the European Union and the Asian Pact: 70% of trade is intra-bloc. Only 30 [%] is exported outside the bloc. Here, in Latin America or South America, it is still 20 or 25%. So we have a lot to integrate.

 

XI.

VIDEO 7 – SPEECHES BY LULA AND DILMA ON THE FORUM AND THE REVOLUTION

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all left-wing parties in Latin America. Don’t think it’s easy. There are comrades here who participate…”

DILMA: “I feel very happy to be in the tent of the Cuban revolution, of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, which was a historic event in Latin America and had a profound influence on my generation. So I consider this a special moment”.

 

XII.

VIDEO 8 – LULA’S SPEECH IN 2013 – LULA EXPLAINS THE STRATEGY OF THE SÃO PAULO FORUM TO COME TO POWER.

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“In 1990, or rather in 1980, the Latin American left did not believe it was possible to come to power through democratic dispute and above all through elections. (…) And history has been in charge of demonstrating that democracy exercised through the participation of the masses can be the best source for the left to come to power in any country in the world. Let us look at the experience of comrade Chávez (…). It is important to remember that a large part of the Venezuelan elite does not accept the arrival of Chávez to power (…), just as they do not accept Lula in Brazil and Dilma in Brazil…. And we have come and I want, comrade of the leadership of the São Paulo Forum, to credit part of the arrival of the left to power in Latin America to the existence of this thing called the São Paulo Forum. It was here and we owe a lot to the Cuban comrades, we owe a lot to the Cuban comrades, because, contrary to what many conservatives think, the Cuban comrades always, always taught us that the exercise of tolerance among us, the peaceful coexistence in adversity among us, the coexistence among the different sectors of the left was the only possibility that allowed us to advance here in this continent. And this has happened and can happen much more, because now we have the obligation not to allow any setback in the achievements we have obtained so far. No setbacks”.

By the way: the “Cuban comrades”, according to Lula, always taught the “exercise of tolerance” and “peaceful coexistence” among the various sectors of THE LEFT, of course. Because, in Fidel and Raul Castro’s Cuba, “tolerance” and “pacifism” towards political opponents have always been exercised with arrests and even executions.

 

 

 

 

XIII.

FIVE CRIMES OF THE SÃO PAULO FORUM

August 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM By Olavo de Carvalho

1) It gave shelter and political protection to terrorist organizations and gangs of drug traffickers and kidnappers who, in the meantime, spread addiction, suffering and death throughout the continent, even turning Brazil into the country where drug consumption is growing the most in Latin America.

2) By associating criminal entities with legal parties in the pursuit of common advantages, it transformed the latter into partners in crime, institutionalizing illegality as a normal routine of political life in dozens of nations.

3) It has flouted all the constitutions of its member countries, inviting each of their governments to blatantly meddle in the internal politics of neighboring nations, and providing the means for them to do so “without anyone noticing,” as Mr. Lula confessed, and without ever being accountable to their respective electorates.

Thus, all continental politics is lowered to the condition of a secret negotiation between interested groups, and democracy is turned into a deceitful façade.

5) It spent a lot of money on travel and accommodation for many thousands of people, during twenty-three years, without ever informing, neither the Brazilian people nor the peoples of neighboring nations, neither the origin of the financing nor the criteria for its application. To this day we do not know what part of the expenses was paid by criminal organizations, what part was diverted from the different governments, what part came from international fortunes or other sources. We never saw an invoice, a service order, an accounting, not even a mock accounting. The thing has the transparency of a lead wall.

 

 

 

 

XIV.

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR ON THE NEED TO SPY ON BRAZIL: “YOU ONLY HAVE TO READ THE FORUM’S MINUTES

The following is the text I translated for the occasion. Olavo de Carvalho commented: “How is it possible that an entity that does not even exist, or that is only an innocent discussion club, can create a diplomatic crisis of massive dimensions? ALL those who hid or disguised for almost two decades the existence of the São Paulo Forum are guilty that this is happening now.”

 

WHY WE SPY ON BRAZIL

Translation by Felipe Moura Brazil of Carlos Alberto Montaner’s column published in the Miami Herald on September 25, 2013.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff canceled her visit to President Obama. She felt offended because the United States was spying on her email. You don’t do that with a friendly country. The information, probably reliable, was provided by Edward Snowden from his Moscow safe house.

Intrigued, I asked a former U.S. ambassador, “Why did they do that?” His explanation was harshly frank:

“From Washington’s point of view, the Brazilian government is not exactly friendly. By definition and historically, Brazil is a friendly country that stood by our side during World War II and Korea, but their current government is not.”

The ambassador and I are old friends. “Can I reveal your name?”, I asked. “No,” he replied. “That would create a big problem for me. But you can transcribe our conversation.” That’s what I’ll do here.

“Just read the minutes of the São Paulo Forum and look at the conduct of the Brazilian government,” he said. “The friends of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff and the Workers’ Party are the enemies of the United States: the Chavista Venezuela, first with (Hugo) Chávez and now with (Nicolás) Maduro; Raúl Castro’s Cuba; Iran; Evo Morales’ Bolivia; Gaddafi-era Libya; Bashar Assad’s Syria.

 

“In almost all conflicts, the Brazilian government agrees with the political lines of Russia and China, as opposed to the perspective of the U.S. State Department and the White House. The ideological family it most resembles is the BRICS, with which it tries to reconcile its foreign policy. The BRICS are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

“The immense South American nation has not manifested nor does it manifest the slightest will to defend the democratic principles that are systematically violated in Cuba. On the contrary, former President Lula da Silva often brings investors to the island to reinforce the Castro dictatorship. The money invested by the Brazilians in the development of the mega port of Mariel, near Havana, is estimated at 1 billion dollars.

face surgically altered. He returned to Brazil with a new identity (Carlos Henrique Gouveia de Mello, a Jewish merchant) and remained in that role until democracy was restored. Hand in hand with Lula, he placed Brazil among the main collaborators of the Cuban dictatorship. He fell in disgrace for being corrupt, but never backed down one iota in his ideological preferences and complicity with Havana.

“Something similar happens with Professor Marco Aurelio Garcia, Dilma Rousseff’s current foreign policy advisor. He is a contumacious anti-Iranian, even worse than Dirceu, because he is smarter and has been better trained. He will do everything he can to mislead the United States.

“For Itamaraty – a Foreign Ministry famous for the quality of its diplomats, generally polyglot and well-trained – the Democratic Charter signed in Lima in 2001 is just an unimportant piece of paper. The government simply ignores the electoral frauds committed in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and is totally indifferent to any abuse of press freedom.

“But that’s not all. There are two other issues that make the U.S. want to be informed about everything that happens in Brazil because, in one way or another, they affect U.S. security: corruption and drugs.

“Brazil is a notoriously corrupt country and these malpractices affect U.S. laws in two ways: when Brazilians use the U.S. financial system and when they compete unfairly with U.S. companies by resorting to bribes or kickbacks.

 

“The drug issue is different. Bolivian coca production has quintupled since Evo Morales became president, and the distributor of this substance is Brazil. Almost all of it ends up in Europe, and our allies want information. This information is sometimes in the hands of Brazilian politicians”.

My last two questions are inevitable: Will Washington support Brazil’s candidacy for permanent membership in the UN Security Council?

“If you ask me, no,” he says. “We already have two permanent opponents: Russia and China. We don’t need a third.”

In closing, will the U.S. continue to spy on Brazil?

“Absolutely,” he tells me. “It’s our responsibility to American society.” I think Dona Dilma should change her email frequently.

 

XV.

AUDIO – GRAÇA SALGUEIRO EXPLAINS THE HISTORY OF THE FORUM

In an excellent interview to Bruno Garschagen about the murderous Chavist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, in Podcast 112 of Mises Brasil, the author of the inescapable blog NotaLatina, Graça Salgueiro, makes a summary of the São Paulo Forum, starting at minute 30, which I transcribe below.

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GRACE: In 1990, when Russia had already broken its agreements with Cuba, had ended the protection it was offering Cuba, Fidel Castro saw that things were not going in the socialist direction he had imagined, the revolution was not going in the direction he had imagined.

invited Lula to form a group, to have a meeting and on July 2, 1990, they had a meeting here in São Paulo, and for that reason, because it was the first meeting in São Paulo, they called it the São Paulo Forum the following year. In this event, they summoned all the countries of South and Central America that were of the left and also organizations linked to the left. In addition to these organizations linked to the left, there were also terrorist groups such as the Farc, the ELN [National Liberation Army, from Colombia], Sendero Luminoso [Maoist-inspired, from Peru], in short (…). And its objective, Fidel Castro’s objective when he decided to create this organization was very clear: he said he intended to recreate in Latin America what was lost in Eastern Europe. So, this is how the Sao Paulo Forum was created and, over the years, these meetings became annual, with three meetings of the Sao Paulo Forum working group, which is the one that actually prepares the agenda of what is going to be discussed at the next meeting and the annual meeting is held once in each member country, which is elected at the meeting that is being held… and throughout the year those activities are put into practice, those things that were determined in the agenda of that meeting. Resolutions are issued: there is a general resolution and there are specific resolutions for each country. For example: when there are going to be elections in the countries, then there is an agenda that says: there are going to be elections in Brazil, there are going to be elections in Chile, there are going to be elections I do not know where, and you have to support candidate X. So the candidate mentioned there is the candidate of the São Paulo Forum. And so they managed to place the 15 presidents-members of the organization, of the São Paulo Forum.

 

BRUNO: And how did this support come about, Grace?

GRAÇA: This support came in all the ways you can imagine. For example, they defend non-interference in foreign countries, self-determination of peoples, I don’t know what, they use these expressions a lot, but they don’t fulfill any of them. I do not know if you have seen, but if someone wants to investigate, you will find on YouTube videos of Lula supporting and asking for votes for Hugo Chávez [see point I] and now more recently for Nicolás Maduro [see point XVII]; Chávez making a video to ask for votes for Dilma. Besides, they send study groups, as they call them, to visit universities, to visit organizations, give lectures, give money, money comes in. There is also financial and logistical support. So they are very supportive of each other. Now, they don’t always win, for example, now in El Salvador they lost: there is going to be a second round, but they lost [the first round]. [Actually, they ended up winning the second…] They lost in Paraguay, but they won in Chile: Michele Bachelet came back. So it’s always like that. And in this history they managed to put 15 presidents in governments, at the head of nations, there were already alternations, somebody lost, somebody came back…. And that is why Lula in no way allowed the São Paulo Forum to be talked about in Brazil until the thing was more stabilized, more solidified, until there were enough countries with presidents of the Forum for it to be firm. He himself said that if we were…. There is a statement he made [see point V], I think it was on the 15th anniversary of the São Paulo Forum [yes, it was], he made a comment that said this: if we had (more or less, true, not those words, true), if we had not hidden from the people what we were doing, the São Paulo Forum today would not have an Indian president, a metallurgist president, it would not have I don’t know what, in short, it confirms that it was necessary to hide from the media, to hide from the people what they were doing there in order to make it work.

BRUNO: Exactly. And just to record here, to do justice, Professor Olavo de Carvalho was the one who for years spoke alone in the wilderness about the São Paulo Forum.

BRUNO: Exactly. And I began to study about the São Paulo Forum through Olavo. It was the first contact I had with Professor Olavo, in 1999, in a telephone conversation, he told me about the São Paulo Forum. And that impressed me very much and since then I have dedicated myself body and soul to study the São Paulo Forum. It is an exclusive dedication. And for that I thank Olavo, because until then nobody talked about it. Of course, he was not the precursor, Dr. Graça Wagner was the one who spoke to him, but he was the voice of the media, at the time when he wrote for the newspapers: O Globo, Folha, Jornal da Tarde, Zero Hora, so he was a voice that was in the media and, for that reason, he lost all those jobs, because he spoke what he could not speak.

 

XVI.

Out of Maduro’s Venezuela due to death threats, Carratú warns Latin America about the power of the Forum, from 2min56sec.

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“First of all, my fraternal greetings from abroad. We must continue to fight. And to the brotherly countries and citizens of the continent: be VERY attentive to the penetration of radical leftist groups under the optics of the Sao Paulo Forum, which is trying to take power in most of our countries, lacking only Colombia, Peru and the Republic of Chile. The others have, in one way or another, this type of contact, this type of actions…. What I must emphasize and reaffirm is that Venezuela, since 1992, is in the hands of Fidel Castro…”.

 

XVII.

VIDEO 10 – LULA’S MESSAGE IN SUPPORT OF MADURO

Yes: Lula, how could it be otherwise, also campaigned for Maduro, the current commander of Venezuela’s murderous dictatorship, which at the time of publication of this post already counted 36 dead during the wave of protests in the country. As I wrote here: Dictatorship in the (…) of others is democracy.

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XVIII.

VIDEO 11 – REINALDO AZEVEDO LINKS MENSALÃO AND SÃO PAULO FORUM

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REINALDO AZEVEDO: What they wanted was to create a parallel Congress. So you have, according to the division of the collegiate Montesquieu, you have the division of the three powers. What they wanted was to annul one power. It was the Executive organizing itself, as I understand, in a gang, to buy a slice of the Congress and to have a Congress of B, another Congress, so that you make democracy, the democratic process, irrelevant. This is part of a project, mind you, it is a big one, of the Latin American leftists, who are organized in the São Paulo Forum. This is not paranoia. For a long time, those who talked about the Sao Paulo Forum were Olavo de Carvalho, Reinaldo Azevedo and two or three other crazy people. No. It exists! The São Paulo Forum exists! In each country it has a project. In the countries where they came to power and the institutions were deteriorated, they went directly to undermine democracy. So, this is the case of Venezuela?

 

RICARDO SETTI: And they created false institutions…

REINALDO AZEVEDO [in agreement]: Institutions of the sham.

AUGUSTO NUNES: And it is also setting up the judiciary.

REINALDO AZEVEDO: And the judicial branch as well. There too. So it was in Venezuela, so it is in Ecuador, so it is in Bolivia, and now in Argentina, because all these presidents came to power with their institutions on the floor. In Brazil, Mr. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came to power with a country, despite its weaknesses, its problems, with a country that was reasonably organized institutionally. And, therefore, you cannot undermine the democratic process…. The Supreme Court itself is now saying to these people, “Be careful, we still can’t do what you want.” So it goes another [way]….. Attention: the mensalão is Bolivarianism.

Brazil, you can’t do that. In Brazil, they went another way. In Brazil, they went to buy the Congress. Buy the Congress with public money. Calculate the audacity. I mean… The critics of the PT are often accused, I myself have been accused of this about five hundred times: “You think the PT invented corruption!” No, I don’t think the PT invented corruption. Corruption is very old. Corruption arises along with the political process. I am not saying that the PT invented corruption. What I have always said, I maintain it, is that the PT tried to elevate corruption to the category of

thought. It tried to transform corruption into a category of thought. THIS is new in the Brazilian political process. New: it emerged with them. This is very serious. This is what they tried to do. Corruption here, there, there has always been corruption, and it must be punished exemplarily. Now, [to which Brazil says “no”, to which the STF says “no”…

 

RICARDO SETTI: It is to the power project.

REINALDO AZEVEDO: The project of power conquered in this way cannot. Carmen Lucia has pronounced well today remembering that politics is the only civilized way we have to govern. Now it has to be with ethics, because if it is not with ethics, then it is war, it is mess, it is confrontation.

 

AUGUSTO NUNES: Perfect.

 

XIX.

MINUTES OF THE SÃO PAULO FORUM

Available on the website Mídia Sem Máscara – HERE. SÃO PAULO FORUM SITE – HERE.

OFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE SÃO PAULO FORUM – HERE. SÃO PAULO FORUM SITE – HERE. ARTICLES BY SILVIO GRIMALDO:

– São Paulo Forum, 23 years later, in Gazeta do Povo [08/25/2013].

– The doctors of the São Paulo Forum, in Mídia Sem Máscara [12/09/2013].

 

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