[A-List] Brizola, Peronism and CPs

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I adhere to J. Figueiredo's defense of Brizola.  Fully and 
absolutely.  Those interested and with a knowledge of Portuguese may 
well profit from some mails that have been posted on the Reconquista 
popular list recently (same archive address as A-list, only replace 
Reconquista-popular for A-list).

There have been a couple of interesting postings on Marxmail also.
 
J. Figueiredo is right in denouncing the role of the "left" (the anti-
national left as we know it in Argentina) when Gral. Golbery de Couto 
e Silva could count on them to split the popular bloc and neutralize 
Brizola, who was returning to the country after long years of exile.

Brizola, a Chávez before the time, or still better a radicalized 
Perón, was the actual victim of the 1964 coup, lived in exile in 
Montevideo until 1977 and then had to go to Lisbon before he could 
return to his country.

As to Arg. CP, sorry, J.F., you are actually wrong.  The party was a 
member (or acted as a member) of the anti-Peronist coalition of 1945, 
and of the criminal anti-peronist coalition of 1976.  Comparison with 
Menem does not serve your ends, specially because (a) CP, officially, 
voted for Menem -not a great sin because Menem betrayed outrageously 
his voters- but (b) they made every effort to break any would-be 
serious national coalition against Menem in order to take them to the 
rosy pink tank of the "progressive sectors", which ultimately lend 
their vote to De La Rúa.

And this I know from personal experience, not from other people's 
comments, because I was one of the members of the most promisory of 
all those coalitions, the Frente del Sur of Pino Solanas.

BTW: Menem's programme, once he reversed his promises, was Menem's 
opponent's programme.  In fact, the same Domingo Cavallo drafted the 
programme of Menem's opponent and later became Menem's Minister of 
Foreign Relations (as such, in 1990 he signed the Madrid agreements 
with the UK which brought Argentina to its knees after the battles in 
the South Atlantic) and finally, as M. of Economy, the "mastermind" 
behind the suicide "convertibilidad" (currency peg) and the foreign 
debt expansion which brought our country to disaster.

The most interesting thing, though, is that the CP's rank-and-file 
voted for Menem's _opponent_, against the "party order".  A cde. of 
mine was fiscalizing some voting places during those presidentials.  
When a single vote appeared in the whole voting site with the 
combination of tickets (prez, Congressmen, etc.) prescribed by the 
Party, the CP fiscalizator himself ironized: "ah, here we have an 
orthodox guy".

There are many reasons for this.  Believe me, dear J. Figueiredo, 
there are few CPs with worst record than ours.  The 1955 coup was an 
occupation coup, a coup that turned our own armed forces into an 
occupation army.  The CP supported it.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@fibertel.com.ar

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"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
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