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The government collected R$ 22.057 billion with the auctions of privatization of the 12 holdings of the Telebrás System carried through yesterday in the Stock market of the River, 4 hours and 2 minutes (of 10h to 14h2), but spent R$ 24 billion, in four years, with the smoothing of the companies for the sale process. The minister of the Communications, Luiz Carlos Mendonça de Barros, fearing the popular protests, ordered the vice-president of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), Pious Jose Borges, and the director of the privatization area, Estela Palombo, will beat the sale hammer unit.
After 12 overtures of the closed envelopes and two proclamations alive-voice , the refined value of R$ 22, 057 billion were 63,74% above of the minimum price of R$ 13.470 billion. Forty percent of this value will be eliminated inside of five days and the balance divided in two parcels at intervals of 12 months. In four years, the cronogram of investments of the government, revealed by the director of the National Agency of Telecommunications (Anatel), Renato Guerreiro, had been expenses of R$ 24 billion. This sum was distributed in R$ 4 billion, in 95; R$ 6 billion, in 96; R$ 8 billion, in the last year; e, until this month, according to Anatel (National Agency of Telecomunicacões), R$ 6 billion. For its calculations, the National Treasure, as controlling interest, received participation in the profits from the Telebrás, in the period, equivalent little more than R$ 400 million, because it withheld only 19% of the total capital. Warrior said that the biggest compensation will come with the prescription of taxes to be generated after the privatization .
After the explosion of the first bombs of moral effect, in the streets borders to the building of the Stock market of Rio, in Square XV, the auctions of sale of the companies of the Telebrás System had run tense. Three hundred national and foreign investors had overcrowded the proclamation.
In 13 minutes, the Telesp Parcitipações was sold to the group of the International Telefónica (Spain), for R$ 5.783 billion, with agio of 64.28%. The South Center Participation, the second bigger disillusionment, was sold by R$ 2.070 billion, with 6.15% agio. The Tele North East Participações, headed for the Telerj, was the disaster of the auctions and had only one competitor, the Andrade group Gutierrez Telecomunicações, who paid R$ 3,341 billion and the agio of only 1%., only group national 100%. The operation was assembled with the participation of the former-president of the BNDES, Eduardo Modiano.
The Embratel needs 14 steps of dispute to be sold North American multinational MCI Telecommunications, for R$ 2.650 billion, with agio of 47.22%.
Finished the "A" group , and observed an interval of one hour, the eight auctions of cellular telephony makes the competitors nervous; The Cellular Telesp, was bought for Portugal Telecom, for R$ 3.588 billion, with agio of 226.18%.
The Tele Cellular East, was sold to the Spanish multinational Iberdrola, who paid 1.36 R$ billion in the auction, with 138.59% agio. The Telemig, with ten competitors, was sold by R$ 756 million, with 228.69% agio. The Cellular South Tele was bought by R$ 700 million, for group UGB Participation, that 204.34% agio paid.
Group " C " opened in the auction of the Cellular Northeast Tele, also bought for R$ 660 million, 193.33% agio, to be paid for groups UGP Participações and Bitel Pareticipações, of foreign capital. The Tele Cellular East was the one that registered the biggest agio between the auctions, dendo sold by R$ 428 million, to the groups of the Iberdrola and International Telefónica, former-Telefómnica of España. The Tele Center West was bought by alone group BID, for R$ 440 million, paying agio of 91.3%. The Tele Cellular North, that seemed to be the worse company of the three groups, with minimum price of 90 R$ milhóes, was sold by R$ 188 million, with 108.88% agio, to be paid for the Telepart Participation, owned by the brazilian company Andrade Gutierrez .
To the ending of the official auction of the Telebrás System, some analysts had risked a palpite without error possibility: the true auction starts in the day after. Or either, officially known the names of the winners in the proclamation, the true one has begined to the investors interested of weight in partnerships with the foreign and national groups.
Despite the mathematical accuracy of the mechanism of the auction, nor always the identification of the winning groups obey to the same logical standard. The 34 trusts represented for the 23 dealers that had always disputed the auction nor had presented for the lay public the transparency that the great involved amounts required.
The system of identification of the winners is complicated. The auction of the Telesp participation can serve of example for the general rule. Officially, the Telesp was bought at auction for the dealera Graphus (code 026), representing the winning group South Telebrasil Participates. In the truth, the winning group was the Telefónica of Spain and a conglomerate of foreign and national companies. The Telefónica is shareholding owner of the Tele South Brazil, keeps partnership with the RBS, has participation in Portugal Telecom, the BBV and Iberdrola. The Telefónica of Spain also gained participation in the operators of cellular of Rio De Janeiro and the Espirito Santo. The success of the Telefónica in the privatization process also can be noticed by its partnership with American giant MCI - purchaser of the Embratel. The electric company Iberdrola partner of the Telefónica gained the auction of privatization of the companies of cellular of the Bahia and Sergipe. The Iberdrola and the Telefónica of Spain in such a way keep a strategical alliance in Spain as in Latin America for joint actions in telephony and other jobs. For the Brazilian and international president of the Telefónica of Spain, Juan Villalonga, " make this important enterprise design must incorporate more values in the company ". Or either, nothing it is defined. A new auction already started. All the negotiations are opened and not only in the case of the Telesp therefore several other winner companies also are made use to receive new partners. With an advantage: the auction is not more official.
The Worst Repression in Rio de Janeiro
07/29/98 - Rio lived one of the biggest police repressions of history, only comparable to the times of the dictatorship, due to privatization of the Telebrás. At least 44 manifestants had been wounded - between which 9 journalists and 15 policemen. In accordance with the route of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT) ( National Sindicate) , three manifestants had been transferred. The four a thousand soldiers of the Military Policy set in motion to restrain the contrary manifestants to the auction had attacked the population with gun shots and had more than played 100 bombs of lacrymatory gas and moral effect. The confusion lasted six hours more than, with one run-runs general in the streets of the Center of the city.
The first confusion was at 7 a.m., when PMs review the encampment of representatives of Movimento Sem Terra (MST) in the Street 1º of March. Nothing it was found. The climate turns to hot, when the secretary of Public Security, Noaldo Alves Silva, tell that he would liberate the traffic in all the Center. It had a conflict with the representative Jandira Feghali (PC of the B) and the candidate to the state government Ciro Garcia (PSTU). Then the hell started. Hundreds of PMs had attacked more than with 20 bombs about two a thousand people. The encampment of the MST was destroied and the people had run away for the streets of the Assembly. They had answered, shooting rocks of the sidewalk against the policemen. In the Street of the Assembly a man was attacked in front of the Lidador House, and after that the integrant one of the Movement of Landless, Cristina Canuto Pereira, 17, was wounded in the face for the splinter of a bomb. In the Street, also was reached by splinter of a bomb the camera Alvaro Dantas, 28 years, that covering for channel 41 of the Net . Minutes later had left the Terminal of Garage Menezes Cortes the police cars 52-0436 and 52-0435, of 13º Battalion, whose integrant had made detonations against the people, leaving a wounded. The PMs had invaded the Kitilanches snack bar, in the Street of the Quitanda, where an employee was fainted. To 11h30, it had more four professionals of the press wounded, reached for splinters of bombs: Léo , photographer of the periodical " The Day "; Flávio Motta, of the " State agency "; e two of the periodical " the Globe ": Marcelo Carnaval and Marco Antonio Cavalcante. To 11h50, the bank clerk Mendes, after be spanked by the policemen , cried out: " If it was in the Vietnam or in Ireland of the North they would not make this ". There close, Juliano Silva, 21 years, rolled in a flag of UNE ( Nacional Students Association) was attacked, imprisoned and dragged for policemen. The repression continued after 15 p.m. in the Rio Branco Avenue. Popular plastic bags with water falls of the buildings the Central Avenue and Marquis of the Herval. Three students had been withheld.
Workers's Union counts 44 wounded and more than and 60 prisoners
According to leaders of the Union of the Telephonic, at least 60 manifestants had been imprisoned for the policy and more than 30 people had been wounded, 21 of which with wounds provoked for bombs and bullets of the PMs. They had been medicated in the hospitals Souza Aguiar, in the Center, and Miguel Couto, in the South Zone. Most serious taken care of in the Souza Aguiar they are: João Carlos de Carvalho, controller of the PC of the B, that presents breaking in the skull, the photographer of the periodical " The Globe ", Mário Antonio Cavalcante, who took an one shock cassetete electrified; e Fábio Motta, also photographer of " the Globe ", that it suffered wounds caused for splinter from a bomb. Others wounded are Osmar Francisco Pereira, Jose Gomes (of the MST, that had a broken arm), Pig Silas, Denise Amorim Santos, Rosane Miranda, Carlos Alberto de Lima, Albertina Neri, Alexander Pereira, Marcelo de Oliveira, Vicente de Pablo, Fábio Luis de Souza, Andres Vink, João Carlos de Carvalho and Carlos Antonio. One of the last wounded taken for the Souza Aguiar it was the reporter Jose Pine Júnior, of the " Periodical of the Commercio ", attacked the blows of cassetete in the legs and spanked in the Rio Branco Avenue, after being wounded in the the morning. Pine identified its aggressor: " He is Abrantes soldier, but I do not know the one that battalion it belongs ", he guaranteed. The member of the regional directory of the PCdoB of the Rio João Carlos de Carvalho, 37 years, was interned in the Spanish Hospital, Botafogo, in the South Zone, with suspicion of a trauma in his head. It was attacked by four military policemen in the Rio Branco Avenue, after the 15 p.m, at the moment where manifesting left the Avenue Nile Peçanha and intended to walk to the Cinelândia. The Shock Troop of the PM hindered the accomplishment of the walk when exhausting the manifestants with lacrimogen gas bombs. It had confrontation and Carvalho fell when it tried to run. It was spanked in the soil and fainted. Initially taken to the Hospital Souza Aguiar, in the Center, he was transferred to the Spaniard. The withheld ones, taken for 1ª Police station, in the Mauá Square, had been: Antonio Guillermo Salles de Carvalho, Anderson Inácio Dos Santos, Antonio de Almeida Júnior, Rodrigo Chamber Ferraz, Carlos Alberto Castro Monteiro, Maria Lúcia Galvão, ribeiro Deny Adeline, and Escocloguia de Medeiros Souza. All had been fit in article 163, only paragraph of the Criminal Code, for qualified damage. Camila Cardoso, student of 16 years also was withheld by PMs of 13º Battalion in the Crosspiece of the Carmo. " It was the most violent action of the federal government in the 30 years, something unacceptable ", denounced the state deputy Edmilson Valentim (PC of the B). If it did not act, João Carlos de Carvalho, member of the Regional Directory of the party, would be spanked in the Rio Branco Avenue.
" They wanted leave him into a police car but it does not agree. ", counted the member of the house of representatives. After that, Valentim was in 1ª DP with the lawyer of the PC of the B, Rosana Dos Santos Alcântara and the father of the victim, Antonio Carlos de Carvalho to denounce the commission agent-bearer, Mário Luis Da Silva, the violence committed against João Carlos. Rosana says: "the policy withheld a series of minors in the police station, what it can be considered by Justice as an abduction of children".
Dirceu asks for to union against neoliberalism
The PT 's president , Jose Dirceu, appeared per some minutes in the Cinelândia where she made a speech. " The first thing that we have that to make to defeat the neoliberalism it is to match the forces of the left ", said, receiving the reply from popular crying out in choir: " the union only defeats the repression ". " We are attending one of the pages most shameful of history Brazil, but we go to ask for the cancellation for the Justice of that it had here in the Rio, because nor it had auction. It was a division of cartels that had bought, the banana price, our patrimony ", denounced. But we go to continue our fight ", guaranteed. The regional president of the PDT, Carlos Lupi says: "This act can be the start of the end of them. We must have the capacity to continue to clarify the population until the final vitoria in October, in the elections ". ___________________________________________________________________________ Freedom For Ever !!