[They could] investigate a cast of thousands, from Lula and Dilma's current Vice President Temer to Neves and the current Education Minister.
At the same time the heavily politicized, Hollywood-worthy Car Wash investigation will keep firing on all cylinders even as the chief targets -- Rousseff impeached and Lula in chains -- become more elusive. Their key strategy is clear; to intimidate virtually everybody. The federal prosecutors behind Car Wash want to blow up any possibility of a political agreement in Brasilia -- even at the price of plunging Brazil into civil war mixed with further economic depression.
It's also clear that without the Brazilian Supreme Court effectively policing the myriad excesses of the Car Wash investigation, there is zero possibility of Brazil emerging from its dire politico-economic crisis.
Before the Lula game-changer, referring to the offensive against Lula, Dilma and the Workers' Party, crack historian Paulo Alves de Lima told me, "We're on the verge of a new stage of a rolling counter-revolution, of an even more restricted democracy, unbearably pregnant with arrogance and institutional violence. We're closer to Pinochet, to the ideal state enshrined by Friedmanesque neoliberalism. We're on the verge of mass fascism, which is a big novelty in Brazil."
The Pinochet specter, of right-wingers seizing power just like in Brazil in 1964 and Chile in 1973, may be partially exorcized -- for now. But make no mistake: the next few days are bound to be epic. Judge Moro, Car Wash's Elliot Ness, allied with the Globo media empire, will go no holds barred to prevent any possibility of a political agreement in Brasilia brokered by Lula. Because this would mean Lula not only as Prime Minister, but as President -- again -- in 2018. Total war starts now.
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