Lula and his jailer

"Banho de Sol: Lula's 580 days in prison", by Jorge Chastalo Filho, the Federal Police agent who guarded the prisoner in 2018/19 in Curitiba, is in bookstores. It is a document of rare value, a kind of memory of prison through the eyes of the jailer.

In the form of a diary, Chastalo meticulously recorded the prisoner's life, his routine and his grudges. Lula served 580 days in prison with the certainty that he would return to Planalto.

The special circumstances of this relationship compromise its essence, despite the cordiality maintained by the prisoner and his jailer.

Chastalo goes into details. The treadmill for Lula's exercises arrived on May 13, 2018.

In many moments, Lula behaves like a reminiscent master, almost always slanderous, bothering the victims' mothers. Ministers Edson Fachin and Luiz Fux look bad in the photo. Cármen Lúcia leaves singed.

Sergio Moro, Deltan Dallagnol and former minister Antonio Palocci are in the hottest corner of hell.

From Lula's conversations with Chastalo comes the best portrait of Dilma Rousseff drawn by her benefactor: "Dilma is very good at following orders, but not at making decisions." According to Chastalo, Lula said that, "on the day of the impeachment vote, he was at Dilma's house and she brought an extensive list of deputies for him to call, asking for support." "He said he wouldn't call everyone and reduced the list to around 20 names. But, when he called the first few, he heard the same justification: 'Lula, if it were you in the Presidency, we wouldn't even be having this conversation, we wouldn't have gotten to this point. But I don't support Dilma, she doesn't even greet me, she doesn't greet my wife or my children'."

"And what did we do with Temer? It's not all his fault, it's also ours. We treated Temer like a dog, without due respect. A president needs to call his vice-president for important meetings, after all, why did we accept him as vice-president? And Dilma didn't do that, she left him watching ships, without knowing what was being decided. It would have been better to have lost this election to Aécio, it would have been less damaging to the party", Lula was quoted as saying.

As expected, Chastalo deprived Lula of his privacy. In November, he told her: "Chastalinho, I'm counting on you to bring my girlfriend." On July 30th, the 114th sugarcane day. The two met, alone, for an hour.

A month later, his girlfriend was on the official visitor list and Lula announced: "I'm married." "And he shows off his finger with a silver promise ring. She shows off hers too and asks for five more minutes."

When Lula arrived in Curitiba, he thought he would be a candidate and defeat Jair Bolsonaro. Afterwards, he believed that Fernando Haddad could do it. "I have never made a mistake in my diagnosis of the elections, and I am certain that the PT will win." He was certain of one thing: he would return to Planalto.

The return

Lula knew things and warned: "Chastalo, you will have work at the beginning of the year if the investigations into the frauds of Bolsonaro's children continue. Things are already appearing... Get ready!".

Lula never lost faith in his electorate:

"I alone have more votes than Bolsonaro, Marina and anyone else combined! They're fucked if they let me compete."

They didn't.

His years of poverty never left him. Recalling a meeting of heads of state, he said:

"None of them had their house flooded, with pieces of human shit floating in the living room. They never went hungry or had to see their children crying because they didn't have a piece of bread to eat. They didn't have to raise five children in a 30 square meter house. I then started talking to them about it and, without fuss, I had a very intimate and sincere dialogue with everyone."

blue wave

The first consequence of the Democratic party's victory in the American elections in relations with Brazil could be the regularization of the consular status of Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, who had her visa suspended.

As Trump will remain in the White House for another two years, life for the Bolsonaro family will continue to be good, with some limits. Trump hates losers.

Fanfare

The biggest deception in the world will be to buy the Security PEC for what it says it is worth and sell it for its fair value.

Nouriel Roubini

While the Democrats' victory stimulates fears of an upcoming crash in the market value of artificial intelligence companies, economist Nouriel Roubini, who sang the song during the last global crisis, says he is calm.

One thing is certain: the vassalage to which the owners of big techs exposed themselves with Trump left them like scoundrels. In two days they lost US$2.5 billion.

Lack of audience

Flávio Bolsonaro told The New York Times that he will take the script and machinations of his escape from Brazil to his grave. It remains to be seen whether anyone will be interested.

The Bolsonaro have two senators (Michelle and Carlos), both radioactive.

The defeat and escape of Flávio Bolsonaro removed voters who want peace from the clan.

Tax adjustment

Lula knows he must make the fiscal adjustment. What he wants is to do it when he is free from the speculators of the last days.

In any case, Guido Mantega's presence at Thursday's meeting of wise men was a hair's breadth.

The last time he was with Lula, he was traveling with a client: former banker Daniel Vorcaro.