Alwaght- The CIA-backed interim Brazilian government has been rocked by a major scandal.
This is after a senator who had a key role in the drive to oust president Dilma Rousseff has been caught in a secret recording in which he appears to say impeaching her is the best way to shut down a high-profile corruption probe.
The conversation, recorded in March as a first impeachment vote loomed, was made public on Monday and created fresh political turmoil in Brazil.
In the recording, Senator Romero Juca, a key member of the new government that took power after Ms. Rousseff was pushed out, seems to tell a colleague that all those being investigated, including the two of them, need to advance a “political action” to ensure the impeachment.
He says that will allow them to “staunch the bleeding” caused by the Lava Jato probe, in which dozens of top political figures have been indicted or are under investigation for accepting what prosecutors say are more than $2-billion in bribes. And he says he has talked to senior military officials and to Supreme Court justices who back a “pact” to shut down the probe.
Supporters of Ms. Rousseff, who have argued all along that the effort to oust her had little or nothing to do with her budgeting practices, say the tape is evidence of a putsch. “This only confirms what we have been talking about for some time: it confirms the coup against Dilma,” said Paulo Rocha, the Senate leader for her Workers’ Party.
Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Brazil’s two biggest cities on Sunday to protest against acting President Michel Temer, trying to keep up pressure on his interim administration only 10 days after he was sworn in.
WikiLeaks documents show Brazil's new interim president, Michel Temer, previously spied for the United States spy agencies in the country.
According to the whistleblowing website, Temer communicated with the US embassy in Brazil via telegram, and such content would be classified as "sensitive" and "for official use only."
Rousseff was suspended from office on May 11 after the Senate voted to put her on trial for breaking budget laws in a historic decision brought on by a deep recession and a corruption scandal.
Rousseff, speaking after being notified of her suspension said, "I may have made mistakes but I did not commit any crime." She called the impeachment "fraudulent" and "a coup."
