Senate-imposed
President of Brazil Michel Temer met with U.S. Embassy staff on at
least two occasions to brief them on the country's politics.
Whistleblower
website WikiLeaks described the Senate-imposed President of Brazil
Michel Temer as a āU.S. Embassy informantā in a tweet and
provided two links where Temer's candid thoughts on Brazilian
politics serve as the basis for a report by the U.S. embassy in
Brazil.
The cable
from Jan. 11, 2006, states that Temer met with embassy officials on
Jan. 9, 2006 to give his assessment of Brazil's political landscape
ahead of the 2006 general election that saw Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
reelected to the presidency.
[...]
The cable
also reveals that in 2006 Temer's party, the PMDB, was considering an
alliance with both the leftist Workers' Party and the right-wing
PSDB. The PMDB's tendency to switch sides would later prove to be a
critical element in efforts by Brazilian elites to oust Rousseff.
Despite
having been elected vice president alongside Rousseff, Temer betrayed
his former allies and joined in efforts to oust the president via
impeachment. 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. In that cable Temer laments the lack of power
given to PMDB ministers during the Lula government.
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