| WELCOME TO Olavo de Carvalho’s ENGLISH HOMEPAGE Bem-vindo à homepage em inglês de Olavo de Carvalho |
| “Somente a consciência individual do agente dá testemunho dos atos sem testemunha, e não há ato mais desprovido de testemunha externa do que o ato de conhecer.” |
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“Only the subject’s individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.” |
This web site brings information about the life, works and ideas of the Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, as well as translations of selected pieces from his most relevant books. Reproduction of the texts is granted and free of charge, provided you mention the font.  Esta é a versão em inglês do site do filósofo brasileiro Olavo de Carvalho. Para visitar o site em português, clique aqui. |
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Brazilian Censorship on Free Press – A Warning
Bad news from Brazil. The Brazilian newspaper O Globo fired me last Monday. This is not just a personal bad luck, but a political fact. For years I had been denouncing by my weekly column the activities of the São Paulo Forum, while the remaining pages of the newspaper (and of all other Brazilian newspapers) kept complete silence on the subject or denied overtly the existence of the Forum or at least its political importance, so that many readers were induced to see me as a kind of lunatic conspiracy theorist. Denial became increasingly difficult during the last weeks, inasmuch as the 12th Assembly of the Forum was gathered in São Paulo from 1st to 4th July. While it was running in Bogota or Havana, it was easy to hide it from Brazilian eyes, but São Paulo is the largest Brazilian city. Moreover, one of the main topics of the discussions was the urgent need for the Latin-American left to give public support to Lula and the Workers Party (PT) against the rising tide of criminal charges, including not only the endemic corruption inside government but even murder accusations (Celso Daniel, the socialist-PT mayor of the industrial town of Santo André, was murdered some years ago and his brother told Daniel was killed by people from his own party whose involvement in corruption he was investigating; later, SIX witnesses of the trial were also murdered by unknown shooters). Well, last week Mr. Merval Pereira, a member of O Globo’s Board of Directors, wrote himself an article where for the first time after fifteen years of silence O Globo admitted frankly the existence and the political relevance of the São Paulo Forum. Four days later I was fired. According to representative Roberto Jefferson (the main witness in present investigations about PT corruption), Mr. José Dirceu, the former number one man in Lula government and now a very important leader in the House of Representatives, boasted often of having complete hold over O Globo’s Board of Directors, owing to the huge debt the company had to state banks. Hundreds of letters protesting against my dismissal are being sent to O Globo (I have copies of many of them), but none of them was or will be published and this is evidence enough of the deliberated occultation of the facts. With my dismissal, Brazilian big media becomes at last the conservative-free ambience it aimed to be. Best wishes, Olavo de Carvalho |
