SAO PAULO — Brazil’s new acting president is a known U.S.
informant who has provided Washington with insider information about the
Brazilian government on multiple occasions.
Michel Temer’s ties to the U.S. government, as revealed by
WikiLeaks’ Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy, add to the growing body of
evidence that the parliamentary impeachment of Brazil’s democratically-elected
president, Dilma Rousseff, was supported by allies in Washington.
Temer, who has served as Brazil’s vice president since 2011,
took power Thursday after Brazil’s parliament suspended Rousseff pending the
results of impeachment proceedings.
Via Twitter, WikiLeaks highlighted two diplomatic cables
from the U.S. Embassy in São Paulo that document Temer’s history of sharing
insider information with Washington from his position as the leader of the
Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, Brazil’s largest political party.
WikiLeaks’ “public library” is assembled from several
sources, including Cablegate, a massive 2010 leak of U.S. diplomatic cables
whose source still remains anonymous.
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