{"id":73618,"date":"2016-05-16T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=73618"},"modified":"2016-05-15T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T14:42:29","slug":"wikileaks-reveal-brazils-new-coup-president-is-us-informant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/05\/wikileaks-reveal-brazils-new-coup-president-is-us-informant\/","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Reveal Brazil&#8217;s New Coup President Is &#8216;US Informant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel Temer met with U.S. Embassy staff on at least two occasions to brief them on the country&#8217;s politics.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73619\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/michel-temer-corrup\u00e7\u00e3o-brasil-brazil.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73619\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/michel-temer-corrup\u00e7\u00e3o-brasil-brazil.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil's Senate-imposed President Michel Temer gestures during a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 12, 2016. | Photo: Reuters\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/michel-temer-corrup\u00e7\u00e3o-brasil-brazil.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/michel-temer-corrup\u00e7\u00e3o-brasil-brazil-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-73619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brazil&#8217;s Senate-imposed President Michel Temer gestures during a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, May 12, 2016. | Photo: Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>13 May 2016 &#8211; <\/em>Whistleblower website WikiLeaks described the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/telesuragenda\/Impeachment-in-Brazil-20151210-0051.html\" >Senate-imposed President of Brazil<\/a> Michel Temer as a \u201cU.S. Embassy informant\u201d in a tweet and provided two links where Temer&#8217;s candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in Brazil.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brasil&#39;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Dilma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#Dilma<\/a> ousted in parliamentary coup; new pres is US embassy informant Michel Temer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gpXqw7txF3\" >https:\/\/t.co\/gpXqw7txF3<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ehpIYMC7K\" >https:\/\/t.co\/8ehpIYMC7K<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wikileaks\/status\/730909086775152641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >May 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The cable from Jan. 11, 2006, states that Temer met with embassy officials on Jan. 9, 2006 to give his assessment of Brazil&#8217;s political landscape ahead of the 2006 general election that saw Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reelected to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Temer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Brazil-Coup-Leader-Confirmed-as-Interim-President-by-Senate-20160512-0018.html\" >became interim president<\/a> after the Brazilian Senate voted to proceed with an impeachment trial against President Dilma Rousseff, forcing her to step down for a period of 180 days.<\/p>\n<p>Temer has been criticized for making clear his intention of pursuing a pro-business, neoliberal program as president, despite the fact that Rousseff and her Workers&#8217; Party were reelected on the basis of a progressive program of social investment and wealth redistribution.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked cable indicates that Temer has always held a neoliberal outlook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTemer criticized Lula&#8217;s narrow vision and his excessive focus on social safety net programs that don&#8217;t promote growth or economic development,\u201d reads the cable from Jan 11, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The cable also reveals that in 2006 Temer&#8217;s party, the PMDB, was considering an alliance with both the leftist Workers&#8217; Party and the right-wing PSDB.<\/p>\n<p>The PMDB&#8217;s tendency to switch sides would later prove to be a critical element in efforts by Brazilian elites to oust Rousseff.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having been elected vice president alongside Rousseff, Temer betrayed his former allies and joined in efforts to oust the president via impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>A June 21, 2006 cable shows Temer held a second meeting with U.S. embassy staff to once again appraise them on the political situation in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>In that cable Temer laments the lack of power given to PMDB ministers during the Lula government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTemer spoke caustically of the Lula administration&#8217;s miserly rewards for its allies in the PMDB,\u201d reads the cable.<\/p>\n<p>Temer&#8217;s bitterness over being left out of Rousseff&#8217;s governance decisions was said to be one of the factors that motivated his eventual support for her impeachment.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/WikiLeaks-Reveal-Brazils-New-Coup-President-Is-US-Informant-20160513-0016.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 telesurtv.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 May 2016 &#8211; Whistleblower website WikiLeaks described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel Temer as a \u201cU.S. Embassy informant\u201d in a tweet and provided two links where Temer&#8217;s candid thoughts on Brazilian politics serve as the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}