Edward Snowden's 'open letter to the Brazilian people'

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To be sincere, our government (Brazil) is hypocritical, because it doesn't give a damn about individual rights. Every month bills are being passed to restrict liberties, we have zero transparency in the government and the party in power uses the local intelligence agency (ABIN) to spy on political adversaries. The president is boasting the anti-american instance mainly for votes.

True, but Dilma and the gangsters in the congress are not very different from most politicians in the world. Putin also only welcomed Snowden for anti-american propaganda.

Dilma will surely welcome Snowden if, somehow, it helps her in the upcoming elections or any big shot on her party makes the cause. That's why (former president) Lula helped Batisti, the Italian terrorist.

But politics is tribal. And Snowden doesn't seem to belong to the "socialist" tribe that the Worker's Party (PT) loves so much.

Besides, common people here don't understand very well what it is all about.

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