After so
many endless dirty interventions in Latin America for decades, it
should not surprise us at all. Yet, it would be worth to see how the
US empire launched another operation in the last two decades to wipe
out every Leftist government in Latin America.
Mark
Weisbrot spoke with Sharmini Peries of the Real
News
and gave further details on this subject. We focused on some
interesting details concerning the US role in the constitutional coup
against Dilma Rousseff in Brazil:
Thomas
Shannon [Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to
2018] met with the leader of the coup effort - the parliamentary coup
in Brazil in 2016 - when the leader of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in Brazil, Aloysio Nunes, came to the US just a day after
the vote to impeach Dilma [Rousseff] took place in the House, and met
with Shannon.
So, that
was a signal to everyone in Brazil that the US was behind this coup.
There
was another show of support when John Kerry went down to Brazil on
August 5th of the same year and he held a joint press conference with
the acting Foreign Minister, Jose Serra, and they talked about how
great their relationship was going to be going forward. And Dilma
wasn’t even removed from office yet, the Senate hadn’t voted yet
to remove her from office. So, that was another signal of support.
The
Department of Justice was involved in the big corruption
investigation there. And so, we don’t know what they did, how it is
that they managed to get Lula [da Silva] put in jail while the banks
(who most of laundered the billions of dollars of corruption), there
were no banks or financial institutions implicated in this whole
investigation.
And of
course, most Brazilians think that the Department of Justice
intervention in the investigation was probably political and they
have good reason to believe that.
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