For years, I’ve fought, to the limited extent I can, to rehabilitate people of extreme social relevance who became targets because of their own success, and suffered character assassination by means of false accusations raised by their powerful enemies.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was jailed for over a year over false accusations of corruption, sentenced by a corrupt judge as part of a political persecution plan to prevent him from running for president in 2018, when nearly every poll showed he was likely to win. The corrupt judge joined the government that won that corrupted election. The former judge’s bias and coordination with the prosecution were acknowledged by superior courts, and the veredict was annulled. Lula became a free man, ran for president in 2022, and he’s president again. He had been a pretty good president in the 2003-2006 and 2007-2010 terms. He dared care about including the underprivileged, socially, economically, and educationally. That was his crime.
— source fsfla.org | Alexandre Oliva | Jun 26 2024