Brazil Coup

Brazil Coup LINK Source | @WikiLeaks  [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] Brazil Coup Michel Temer -- Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia -- lawyer, politician -- VP Brazil since 2011 -- Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) -- centrist 'big tent' party with no defined ideology / seeking to appeal to diverse -- assumed the presidential role as 'acting president' -- on suspension of Dilma Rousseff during impeachment trial -- Maronite Lebanese -- family migrated to Brazil, 1920s from north Lebanon -- due to post-WWI instability -- children spread over 3 women so far: --     -- wife #1 - Maria --     -- journalist --     -- wife #2 - Marcela (42 years Temer's junior, dating then 60yo at 17) -- second VP of Lebanese origin -- Temer subject of corruption investigations -- 'Operation Car Wash' -- re construction contracts from Petrobras US$1.5 million alleged kickbacks -- payments characterised by Temer as 'legal campaign donations' -- & wrongdoing denied -- Temer involved in Dilma Rousseff impeachment process -- 2015 sends letter to President Rousseff complaining he's not consulted enough -- Temer letter mocked on Brazilian social media -- Rousseff condemned him as a traitor to her administration -- 2016 - audio file of Temer leaked to media -- Temer speaks as if impeachment process under-way & he was the new president -- leak came hours before special lower house committee scheduled to vote re impeachment “Let’s not think that a possible change in government will solve everything in three or four months.” [Michel Temer] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Temer  Operation Car Wash -- Brazil Federal Police investigation -- since March 2014 -- money-laundering investigation expanded to allegations of corruption -- involving state-controlled Petrobas -- alleging executives accepted bribes -- for awarding contracts to construction firms at inflated prices -- alleged ring used currency exchange & money transfer service -- to move illicit money -- 2016:  Marcelo Odebrecht, CEO of Odebrecht -- convicted of paying more than $30 million in bribes to Petrobras executives -- sentenced 19 years prison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash Petrobas -- 54% govt Brazil owned -- 5% Brazilian Development Bank -- 5% Brazil Sovereign Wealth Fund (Fundo Soberano) -- 36% privately held shares (BM&F Bovespa) -- f. 1953 under slogan 'the oil is ours' (& not the foreigners) -- 92% production = Brazil holdings -- significant oil & energy assets:  x16 countries, Africa, North & South America, Europe, Asia -- began processing oil shale 1953 -- Petrobas almost went bankrupt 1973 oil crisis -- 2005 joint venture Japan + supply ethanol -- 2007 & 2009 SEVERAL MAJOR OIL DISCOVERIES -- partnership incl:  --     Royal Dutch Shell (Anglo-Dutch multinational) --     Shell:  world's second largest oil company --     Galp Energia (Portuguese) -- 2009:  loans from China - US$10-bn -- 2013:  US government spying on Petrobras (US journalist Glenn Greenwald) -- 2015:  Petrobas accumulated $128-bn debt (84% foreign currencies) --     Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sue Petrobras --     and its auditors, PriceWaterhouseCoopers --     arising from corruption scandal   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrobras   'NSA spied on Brazil's oil giant Petrobras'  [3:49]  PRESS TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GerSgjS_huE [Source - PressTV video (above) / Gloria La Riva, ANSWER Coalition]  [for quotation purposes, confirm audio]  SUMMARY US oil companies & military corporations  have a decided interest in domination & recapturing of oil resources throughout world. Spying on Mexico due to struggle in Mexico to privatise Mexican oil. Pressure from US to dominate oil as it did to 1938, along with British. US & British working in tandem & using British territory (Ascension) to spy on Brazil. US militarising several Latin American countries & building more bases Colombia, and trying to pressure Latin American countries to break friendships with anti-imperialist countries in Latin America.  -------/\/\/ The anti-imperialist Latin American nations: Antigua & Barbuda Bolivia Cuba Dominica Ecuador Grenada Nicaragua Saint Kitts & Nevis Saint Lucia St Vincent & the Grenadines Venezuela   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALBA NSA’s Top Brazilian Political and Financial Targets Revealed by New WikiLeaks Disclosure Glenn Greenwald, David Miranda July 4 2015, 8:59 p.m Top-secret data from the National Security Agency, shared with The Intercept by WikiLeaks, reveals that the U.S. spy agency targeted the cell phones and other communication devices of more than a dozen top Brazilian political and financial officials, including the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff, whose presidential plane telephone was on the list. President Rousseff just yesterday returned to Brazil after a trip to the U.S. that included a meeting with President Obama, a visit she had delayed for almost two years in anger over prior revelations of NSA spying on Brazil. That Rousseff’s personal cell phone was successfully targeted by NSA spying was previously reported in 2013 by Fantastico, a program on the Brazilian television network Globo Rede. That revelation — along with others exposing NSA mass surveillance on hundreds of millions of Brazilians, and the targeting of the country’s state-owned oil company Petrobras and its Ministry of Mines and Energy — caused a major rupture in relations between the two nations. But Rouseff is now suffering from severe domestic weakness as a result of various scandals and a weak economy, and apparently could no longer resist the perceived benefits of a high-profile state visit to Washington. 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