Elections
“Flávio Bolsonaro is looking for former ministers, Marçal and politicians with market experience” (Politics, 12/28). By nominating Flávio, with everything we already know about him, Bolsonaro is simply handing the election to Lula on a platter. The country can no longer stand this Lula x Bolsonaro soap opera. Brazil deserves real alternatives – Ratinho, Zema or Tarcísio – names with more chances of turning this page.
Hélio Maurilio Silva (Belo Horizonte, MG)
Registrations are open to offer a new adventure alongside irresponsible people.
Ricardo Lobo (Terezópolis de Goiás, GO)
To show! Give it to him, Flávio!
Giovani Ferreira Vargas (Gravatai, RS)
Press and democracy
“Press under attack, democracy in erosion” (Lygia Maria, 12/28). If democracy is bad, it’s because the press is bad.
Marcos de Faria (Uberaba, MG)
Truth is not the goal of political fanaticism. The goal is only domination and power.
Carlos Eduardo Cunha (São Paulo, SP)
A process of demoralization of the STF is underway.
Anete Araujo Guedes (Belo Horizonte, MG)
Journalists have nothing to prove. Listen to sources, give clues. But it’s the police who have to prove it.
Alcide Alcantara (Belem, Pennsylvania)
Registration
“Leader in deforestation, RO receives 1 in 3 heavy equipment paid for with amendments in the Amazon” (Politics, 12/28). All parliamentarians should be responsible for the fate of the amendments. If they want to have this power, they must also take fiscal and criminal responsibility for the acts they commit.
Roberto Ken Nakayama (São Paulo, SP)
Workers’ money is used to desertify the Amazon and the Cerrado, with consequences for the entire population.
Maria Eloisa Montero Miguez (São Bernardo do Campo, SP)
Science
“Oliver Sacks said he felt guilty for the lies and falsifications he had committed, according to an American magazine” (Science, 12/26). The guilt that Oliver Sacks admitted to feeling for mixing facts and inventions in clinical reports exposes a limitation that science cannot overcome. This admission highlights an uncomfortable point: even big names must remember that, without ethics, no brilliance can be lasting.
Paccelli Zahler (Brasilia, DF)
It is a shocking admission, one that leaves us with a deep sense of skepticism about what we considered solid foundations of our cultural formation, because, certainly, this scientist was not the only one to commit such falsification of reality.
Jonas Nunes dos Santos (Juiz de Fora, MG)
I have always read his works with great pleasure and interest. Understanding that little of what he recounts in his books was just fables diminishes some of his genius, but it does not erase his humanity, nor his important portrait of the human condition.
Fernando Machado (Caxias do Sul, RS)
I was a big admirer of Sacks. I read and reread one book after another. But when I read “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” I felt like I was being deceived. I couldn’t believe this fantasy. I put aside his books and established a margin of safety, of doubt.
José Roberto G. Rocha (Aracaju, SE)
Evangelicals
“A former evangelical taught me more about Christianity than many pastors” (Juliano Spyer, 12/29). Great suggestion for reflection.
Fabio Péra (São Paulo, SP)
God respects our freedom.
Celia Moura (São Bernardo do Campo, SP)
Energy
“The electricity crisis reveals social injustice in the production of solar energy in Brazil” (Opinion, 12/27). Excess energy and absurd energy costs. It seems to me that there is a certain anomaly in energy policy.
Marcelo Godoy (Sitting, SP)
Brazil has a problem that every country would like to have: excess energy. It is up to authorities to think outside the box to use excess production at peak times.
Everaldo Cámara (Parnamirim, registered nurse)
Happy Holidays
Folha thanks and reciprocates the good wishes received from José Renato de Araújo and Tania Tavares.
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