It was never a fight for democracy, and it was always for communism

It was never a fight for democracy, and it was always for communism

Now, yes, Zé Dirceu, Dilma Roussef, José Genoíno, in order to fight for the reconstitution of internal democracy in Brazil from 1964 to 1980, had to kidnap the US ambassador in order to remain free from the military dictatorship and continue in Cuba to train how to shoot with pistols, machine guns, mortars, cannons, bazookas, rocket launchers, prepare ambushes, prepare kidnappings, and to finance the "democratic" terrorist cells that needed to rob banks and kidnap the businessman owner of the Pão de Açúcar hypermarket chain, Abílio Diniz, owner of the Pão de Açúcar supermarket chain, to obtain ransom money for the fight for socialist democracy. Today they say they fought for democracy, but they never wrote that in their manifestos of struggle, nor would they even remember to write the fight for democracy in the programs of the PT Workers' Party of the President of the Republic, ALN Aliança National Liberation, MR8, Revolutionary Movement of October 8, all left-wing, and other terrorist groups, but today they swear that it was all for democracy, they are ashamed to say that it was never for democracy, it was always for communism.

It is enough to simply accept the rotation of governments.

The alternation of governments is democracy. Opposition is democracy, and not an enemy to be exterminated. Democracy is tolerance to hear what we do not like and do not want to hear, but with respect for differences.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político