"Sarney, Sarney, Sarney..." "I receive in this public square the right to govern Maranhão." "Right that was granted me by the sovereign will of the people" "Our sky and our land are witnesses of the long hard and heroic roads that have led to this afternoon, to this act, to this moment." "The mandate that I hereby receive has the mark of this struggle, the flame of the most authentic popular will, of the freedom to choose and prefer, of the conscience of the options." "Maranhão could not take anymore, nor did it wish to, of the constrast of its fertile lands, its humid valleys, its vivid palm forests, its fabulous potential wealth, with misery anguish, hunger, with the desperation, of" "the fights that lead nowhere but the place where man becomes just an animal made of meat and bones." "Maranhão does not want dishonesty in government, corruption in its halls and offices." "Maranhão does not want violence as a political instrument used to repress the most sacred of rights, which those of the human being, with the impunity of murderers, guaranteed by the police, and freedom reduced to" "just an oportunity to degrade man." "Maranhão does not want tax collection as a private box of inexistent tithes for inexistent royal treasuries which aren't inexistent, for those who have benefitted throught the years of corruption can be named and identified." "Maranhão does not want misery, hunger, illiteracy, the highest infant mortality rates, or of tuberculosis, malaria, as something to live with." "Maranhão does not want and did not want to die silently;" "it did not want a static death with its eyes blank and stay marginated from progress, watching Brazil and the north-east progressing, while our land fell into putrefaction, unable to march, or walk." "And then the doctor said I was cured." "And after six months I spilled my last drop of blood, and my mates, yesterday saw me shedding my last drop of blood." "No hope, nothing." "Waiting only for God." "I need surgery, but it seems i'll die... without doing it." "Today, I'm here shaking, without a drop of blood in my veins." "Well, this is how it goes, we, the workers, never receive our salary." "We earn twenty-five pesos and the "family salary", but we never get it." "How will we open new roads?" "How will we educate our technicians?" "How will we build our ports?" "How will we industrialize Maranhão and create new jobs?" "How will we change our face concerning housing, clothing and food?" "We have a very strong human potential." "We have our eyes, in this afternoon at the beginning of government looking towards that cement barrier that blocks the river Parnaíba and that brings us a message of the progress that exists and that is called Boa Esperança." "With the Parnaíba tamed so that Piauí and Maranhão can transform that castle in the desert, which is how the technicians called the de Boa Esperança plant;" "It is the most prosperous zone in the north-east where the largest investment field shall be." "We have our palm trees planted here by nature, and here we have the largest reserve of vegetable fat in the world." "In the 150,000 square kilometres covered with babaçu which we will export, valorze and industrialize and show Brazil that instead of a problem can be a great solution for all of us." "The Marquis of Pombal in a letter he wrote to the governor of Maranhão, Melo e Póvoas said that two ancient gods were represented with their eyes closed, the godesses of justice and love, which proves that they were not blind for blind justice and blind love" "are great dangers for whoever rules these lands." "And warned that there should be no temples built for those divinities." "We stare at reality with our eyes wide-open." "We shall live the passion of this new government." "00:08:51,235 -- 00:08:56,235 Live every single hour, every single minute, every single day." "Passion that today is joy and smile and tomorrow shall be work and perseverance to build the Maranhão of freedom, progress, greatness and hapiness." "Thank you very much, my friends."