Publisher: President Lula inaugurates the Federal Technical Institute in the city of chimneys

Until the 40s of the last century - to be optimistic - the city of Paulista, located in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, was, in reality, a large farm controlled by the industrial oligarchy of the Lundgren family, which maintained two textile industries and a village there. which was once considered the largest in Latin America. To paraphrase Gilberto Freyre, in an allusion to the sugar mill owners of the state's sugar aristocracy, they owned everything: the land, the water, the forests, the machines, the factories, the port, the railroad, the airfield, the swiddens , the houses and, to a certain extent, the workers who lived there. This power was legitimized or exercised through absolute control over the production process - there were no other economic activities in the city - and through the so-called watchmen - an armed militia, which at its peak numbered 740 men. Anyone wishing to know or understand a little better this oligarchic relationship pattern, maintained for decades, in some cases under the complacency of the State Apparatus, read the novel: "Menino de Vila Operária", by this publisher, which can be purchased through this blog .

This original evil, both from a political and economic point of view, left an indelible mark on the city, interdicting, until today, republican practices in the conduct of public affairs. Yesterday, the current mayor, Ives Ribeiro, was booed and called a liar during the inauguration of an IFPE in that city, by the audience present at the event, which was attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Minister of Education, Camilo Santana , and Governor Raquel Lyra. 

The inauguration of this IFPE could be the beginning of the resumption of the large investments in education made in the first governments of the PT coalition, responsible for one of the great advances regarding our substantive democracy, including a cut of social situation, race and gender, creating the largest program ever seen in the country to enroll poor students in higher education. Another IFPE is being planned for the city of Olinda, also in Pernambuco.