Brazil's
acting president used to be US intel informant - WikiLeaks
Published
time: 13 May, 2016 14:43Edited time: 13 May, 2016 18:01
Brazil's
interim President Michel Temer. © Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters
Brazil's
new interim president, Michel Temer, was an embassy informant for US
intelligence, WikiLeaks has revealed.
According
to the whistleblowing website, Temer communicated with the US embassy in
Brazil via telegram, and such content would be classified as "sensitive" and "for
official use only."
Two cables
were released, dated January 11, 2006 and June 21, 2006.
One shows
a document sent from São Paulo, Brazil, to - among other recipients - the US
Southern Command in Miami. In it, Temer discusses the political situation in
Brazil during the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Brasil's new
president #Temer was
an embassy informant for US intelligence, military
Regarding
the 2006 elections, when Lula was re-elected, Temer shared scenarios in which
his party (PMDB) would win the elections.
He declined
to predict the race, however, but said there would be a run-off and that "anything
could happen."
Temer said
the PMDB would elect between 10 and 15 governors that year, and that the party
would have the most representatives in the Senate and thus the House of
Representatives. This would mean that the elected president would have to
report to PMDB rule.
"Whoever
wins the
presidential election will have to come to us to do anything," Temer reportedly
said.
Temer has
replaced Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended from office earlier this week, after
the Senate approved impeachment against her.
Rousseff
was suspended from her post for at least 180 days after senators voted 55 to 22
to punish her for manipulating budget data, ahead of her re-election in
2014.
The
left-wing politician claimed that Brazil was in a strong economic position, but
since she convincingly won the vote, the economy has unraveled, putting Brazil
in the worst recession for decades.
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