This is Maisa a 7 years-old-prodigious girl, the last success on Brazilian TV. She was discovered when she was 3 on a talents-show and since then her face has been seen every week on TV sets. She has a program at Saturdays named "Sábado Animado" where presents cartoons and talk to kids by telephone, and had a special presentation on "Programa Silvio Santos" (Silvio Santos Show) a Sunday-TV show where she played with his "boss" Silvio Santos.
Silvio Santos - pseudonymous of Senor Abravanel -is a businessman and a show man owner of banks, TV stations, hotels and shops of eletronics. He got rich making raffles on TV. Santos began his self made man life as a comb seller in Rio de Janeiro; after this he went to São Paulo and bought his first TV channel during military dictatorship. Today he is owner of SBT network, the third greatest Brazilian TV group. His life and success were always criticized by a part of public opinion and by intelligentsia that consider Silvio Santos a, a demagogue businessman. Maybe it is true-or not. But is known that Santos has a populist mind to produce some of the shows of his station, using frequently vulgar language to get more public to his channels. Besides he frequently disrespect the public, taking off soap-operas and series without previous notice. But what happened with Maisa last May,17 can not be a pretext of authorities to reveal their demagogy or envy, that is usual between Brazilian society - capitalism is still a taboo, and all businessmen are always seen as Dickensian exploiters.
On this date, Maisa cried in front of the cameras on the studio of Silvio Santos Show when she saw a boy wearing a monster mask. This was a strategy to frighten Maisa, of course a unhappy mock that was not edited before broadcasted . This scene caused a great indignation of children rights defensors, lawyers looking for prestige and judges. They request and got the prohibition of Maisa's appearance on Silvio Santos Show. She only appear on her own show at Saturdays.
There would be none problem if Brazil were not one of the greatest countries of the world in disrespect to childrens rights. Recently Brazilian police has been occupied catching nets of pedophiles and persons that patronize adolescent prostitution. What is the problem if Maisa cried in front of cameras? Psychologists have said that Maisa is a happy child, she has good note on school and her family protect her of the perils of the fame. There are another children to authorities take care. Specialists discuss about the use of the children image on TV, what this can represent to their development, what is the psycologic impact that this can cause in their minds - all of this hav to be scrutinized, but hurried statements are not the best way to solve the problem.
Silvio Santos maybe had mistaken in his atitude with Maisa, exposing a little child on a harmful situation, but compare this bad action with other situations of prejudices against chidren related above is incoherent and demagogy, inadmissible in a country that want to protect all the children however their social class. The rest is pure demagogy, official demagogy.
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It sounds a little mean to make her cry by putting on a monster mask, but I don't know if it is "abuse" in my moind. It does sound as though Brazil has a long way to go in the realm of children's rights though!
You are sure, recently some books (kind graphic novelss of Will Eisner) and other with pornografic language were distributed to childreen of 3rd grade in publics schools of São Paulo, the richest state of Brazil! Tvs and newspapers reported the mistake and fortunately they were distrubute to correct classes. Governor and secretary of education said that was a little error only...There is a long way.
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