Lula faces numerous corruption charges in Brazil. The document outlines 10 corruption cases against Lula related to bribery and influence peddling during his time as president. It argues that the evidence demonstrates Lula's guilt and that he negatively impacted Brazil's economy, infrastructure, industry, environment and social inequality during his time as president. Lula's fate, it says, will be condemnation by the justice system and rejection by Brazilian voters.

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LULA'S DESTINY IS THE TRASH OF HISTORY
Fernando Alcoforado *
There are several cases where Lula responds to corruption before the courts. There are 7
processes in Lava Jato Operation, 1 process in Janus Operation and 2 processes in
Zelotes Operation. Below is a summary of each case:
LAVA JATO OPERATION
• Tríplex of Guarujá (convicted): the former president has already been convicted by
judge Sergio Moro to 9 years and 6 months in prison. Lula waits in freedom until
today's decision (24/01) in 2nd instance in the TRF 4 of Porto Alegre.
• Atibaia grange (defendant): denounced on May 22, 2016, Lula responds to the
accusation that he received a bribe from OAS and Odebrecht through a refurbishment of
1 grange in Atibaia (SP), of which he would be the true owner.
• Land of the Lula Institute (defendant): denounced on December 14, 2016. Odebrecht
would have attempted to pay Lula's bribe by buying 1 land in São Paulo for the
"Memorial of Democracy", linked to the Lula Institute. The purchase never
materialized.
• Obstruction of Justice (defendant): denounced on July 21, 2016. Responds for
allegedly conspiring with former senator Delcídio do Amaral and others to buy the
silence of the former director of Petrobras Nestor Cerveró.
• Lula minister (denounced): the Public Ministry presented, on September 6, 2017, an
accusation of obstruction of justice. It deals with the case in which there was an attempt
to appoint Lula to the Civil House in the Dilma Rousseff administration.
• Gang of PT (Workers Party)' (denounced): the PT was accused on September 5, 2017
of acting in a criminal organization with Dilma Rousseff and 6 other members of PT to
collect bribes in public administration bodies.
• Lectures by Lula (suspect): the former president is investigated for allegedly using the
Lula Institute and the company LILS Palestras to receive bribes from contractors.
JANUS OPERATION
• BNDES loan (defendant): denounced on October 7, 2016. Lula responds for allegedly
favoring Odebrecht by making loans from BNDES (National Development Bank) for
the construction company to work abroad. A relative of Lula, Taiguara Rodrigues, was
hired by Odebrecht.
ZELOTES OPERATION
• Purchase of fighters (defendant): denounced on December 9, 2016. The former
president responds by influence traffic in the edition of a provisional measure (PM) and
in the negotiation of combat aircraft. His son would have been given a bribe thanks to
his father.
• Provisional Measure (PM) to the automotive sector (denounced): The Public
Prosecutor presented charges on September 11, 2017. The former president is accused

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of influence traffic in the issue of a provisional measure that would have benefited the
automotive sector. The bribe would have been paid through intermediaries to Lula and
the former chief of staff, Gilberto Carvalho.
The corruption cases against Lula, cited above, demonstrate that he practiced countless
crimes and is therefore not innocent, as many of his defenders claim. One fact is clear:
Lula is a fake who, despite the evidence and evidence of the crimes he practiced, still
deceives many people who believe in his innocence dominated by political blindness.
Very difficult, Lula will get rid of the prison for the numerous crimes of corruption
before the Justice. If, however, Lula is not arrested and is able to maintain his candidacy
for the Presidency of the Republic in 2018, he will be tried by the people at the polls for
the evils that the PT governments brought to Brazil from 2003 to 2016 as described
below:
1. Poor economic growth and uncontrolled inflation
The Lula and Dilma Roussef governments were not able to promote Brazil's sustainable
economic growth at rates above 5% per annum, necessary for generating employment
and income in Brazil. The average growth rate from 2002 to 2012 was 3.45% per year.
2. Bottlenecks in economic and social infrastructure
There was insufficient public and private savings in Brazil, which should be around
25% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to enable economic growth of 5% per year and
corresponded to 17.2% of GDP. The public investment rate in Brazil (1.09% of GDP)
was very low due to the excessive commitment of the Republic's budget to the payment
of interest and amortization of domestic public debt.
3. Desindustrialization of the Brazilian economy and denationalisation of the Brazilian
economy
The opening of the Brazilian economy since 1990 and maintained by the governments
Lula and Dilma Roussef aggravated the situation of the Brazilian industry that lost
competitiveness due to the obstacles represented by the overvaluation of the exchange
rate and the Brazilian Cost (high real interest rates, very high tax burden, high labor
costs, high costs of the social security system, complex and inefficient tax legislation,
high cost of electricity, poor infrastructure and lack of skilled labor). The weakening of
Brazilian industry was decisive so that half the foreign direct investment made in Brazil
in the last years was destined to the acquisition of many national industries
denationalizing the Brazilian economy.
4. Resumption of privatization policy
The policy of privatization of state-owned enterprises fought by the PT was carried out
by the Dilma Roussef government. The so-called private public partnership (PPP) put
into practice by the government Rousseff was nothing less than the new name given to
the privatization process of ports, airports, highways, etc.
5. Explosion of internal and external public debt and worsening of the financial crisis of
the public sector
Due to the fact that the federal government spent more than taxes accumulating debts
that are among the largest in the emerging world, Brazil's gross debt corresponded to R$

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2.4 trillion in 2013 (67% of GDP). The allocation of budget resources for the payment
of interest and amortizations of domestic public debt was increasing. The largest
expenditures of the Brazilian government foreseen for 2013 are interest and debt
repayments corresponding to 43.98% of the budget, with social security corresponding
to 22.47% of the budget and with transfers to States and Municipalities corresponding
to 10.21% of the budget. In addition to high public debt service payments, the high
basic interest rates of the economy (Selic) adopted by the central bank of the federal
government, the fifth largest in the entire world economy, as well as the growing public
sector deficit contributed decisively to the continued increase of public debt in Brazil.
The fact that almost half of the Union's budget is destined to pay interest and
amortizations of domestic and foreign debts with a tendency to grow in the coming
years will result in the increasing incapacity of the Brazilian government at all levels
(federal, state and municipal levels) to invest in solving the problems of economic and
social infrastructure and to promote the country's development.
6. Failure of governmental social policy and overcoming regional inequalities
The failure of the Lula and Dilma Roussef governments on the social level is reflected
in the failure to promote the true social inclusion of the poor with their insertion into the
labor market as a consequence of the growth of GDP, that is, of the increase of the
national wealth. There was a false social inclusion because it occurred with the granting
of "crumbs" to 50 million poor Brazilians through the Bolsa Família transfer income
program with treasury resources. The failure of PT governments in the social plan is
also reflected in the fact that the real unemployment rate corresponded to 20.8% of the
economically active population, contrary to the official rate of 5.3% of IBGE and 10.5%
of DIEESE registered in October 2012. The precariousness of the public services of
education, health, public transport, sanitation, and housing make Brazil stand in the last
place in the world as provider of these poor public services to the population. In order to
complete the serious social situation in Brazil, it was observed that there is a high level
of crime in which the country has the highest rates in the world, with an annual rate of
approximately 22 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, while the United States and
France, for example, recorded 6 and 0.7 murders, respectively. The PT governments
have also failed to overcome existing regional inequalities. The regional inequalities in
Brazil are quite high. The Southeast region accounts for 59% of Brazil's GDP, while the
South region participates with 16%, the Northeast region with 13%, the Central-West
region with 7% and the North region with 5%. There is an excessive economic
concentration in the Southeast of the Country.
7. Worsening of the state of the environment
The PT governments have not been able to reduce the aggression that is committed to
the Brazilian environment. Brazil is the 4th largest polluter of the planet and is
responsible for the worldwide emission of 5.4% of greenhouse gases. Almost 25% of
national emissions come from modern industry and agriculture, and 75% come from
traditional agriculture and inefficient or predatory logging. 75.4% of greenhouse gas
emissions in Brazil result from deforestation and burning, 22% from burning fossil
fuels, 1.6% from industrial processes and 1% from other causes.
This is, therefore, the legacy of the governments Lula and Dilma Rousseff in the last 14
years of serious consequences for Brazil. The systemic corruption and the economic and
social crisis that affect Brazil at the moment should be debited to the PT governments
under the leadership of former president Lula. Therefore, it is in the hands of the justice

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the punishment of Lula for the crimes of corruption that he practiced and of the
Brazilian people to repel his return to the Presidency of the Republic in the elections of
2018.
It should be remembered that Lula was never a practitioner of ethics either as a trade
unionist or as a militant politician, since, as a trade unionist, he was in the service of the
military regime to combat the communists and laborers who dominated the trade union
movement and, in creating the PT, barred Brizola's pretensions to winning the
presidency of the Republic. When he seized power in 2003 he made spurious alliances
with the scum of Brazilian politics, he doubled the dictates of capital, especially the
capital, and dismantled the social movements that became the maneuvering mass of his
government. In addition, she helped lead the country into bankruptcy with the
maintenance of the neoliberal economic model and the choice of the incompetent Dilma
Rousseff to succeed him, in addition to forming a gang that assaulted the public coffers.
Lula's fate is the rubbish of history.
*Fernando Alcoforado, 78, membro da Academia Baiana de Educação e da Academia Brasileira Rotária
de Letras – Seção da Bahia, engenheiro e doutor em Planejamento Territorial e Desenvolvimento
Regional pela Universidade de Barcelona, professor universitário e consultor nas áreas de planejamento
estratégico, planejamento empresarial, planejamento regional e planejamento de sistemas energéticos, é
autor dos livros Globalização (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova
(Des)ordem Mundial (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, São
Paulo, 2000), Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado.
Universidade de Barcelona,http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e
Desenvolvimento (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX
e Objetivos Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of
the Economic and Social Development- The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe
Planetária (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável-
Para o progresso do Brasil e combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do
Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2011), Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social
(Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012), Energia no Mundo e no Brasil- Energia e Mudança Climática
Catastrófica no Século XXI (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2015), As Grandes Revoluções Científicas,
Econômicas e Sociais que Mudaram o Mundo (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2016) e A Invenção de um novo
Brasil (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2017).