In the 1980s, the French invented the term “gauche caviar”, soon translated in Brazil as “left caviar”. The expression refers to people from the elite who militate on the left without abandoning the taste for the good life: travel, luxury shopping and, of course, the pleasure of gastronomy.
The right loves to point the thumb at the supposed hypocrisy of those who preach social equality without living like a Franciscan monk. Recently, the term was updated to “iPhone Socialist”. But let’s stay with the caviar.
Didn’t the precious fish roe appear in a purchase by the Ministry of Defense, made with funds that should have been earmarked for combating Covid-19?
Our soldiers, loyal defenders of discipline and Spartan life, right and right men, succumbed to the temptation to make banquets with the sick people’s money.
According to a report by Constança Rezende, the military improperly spent R$535,000 on non-essential items such as filet mignon, rump cover, cod, shrimp, salmon, caviar and alcoholic beverages.
The sum is equivalent to the cost of 33,754 doses of vaccine against Covid-19 (Fiocruz produces AstraZeneca’s immunizing agent for R$ 15.85).
The caviar milicos feast on the corpses of 619,000 Brazilians.
Anywhere almost serious, it was the case of the fall of government, collective resignation and hara-kiri. But… Brazil, right?
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