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<h1 class="reader-title">Far-Right Homage: Bolsonaro Visits CIA
Before Meeting Trump on First US Visit</h1>
March 18, 2019</div>
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<p>Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro showed the world
who’s really the boss by visiting the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters in Virginia
Monday prior to meeting President Donald Trump, on his
first official visit to the U.S.</p>
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<p>“No Brazilian president had ever paid a visit to the
CIA,” Celso Amorim, who served as foreign minister under
former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, told AP,
adding that it “is an explicitly submissive position.” </p>
<p>The clandestine chat was announced by his son, Eduardo
Bolsonaro, in a tweet saying the meeting was “an
excellent opportunity to talk about international
affairs of the region with technicians and experts of
the highest level.” </p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="pt">Indo agora com o PR <a
href="https://twitter.com/jairbolsonaroe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jairbolsonaroe</a>
ministros para a CIA, uma das agências de
inteligência mais respeitadas do mundo. Será uma
excelente oportunidade de conversar sobre temas
internacionais da região com técnicos e peritos do
mais alto gabarito.</p>
— Eduardo Bolsonaro (@BolsonaroSP) <a
href="https://twitter.com/BolsonaroSP/status/1107605698219782144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March
18, 2019</a> </blockquote>
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<p>A rather ominous fact, since the CIA has been <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/analysis/10-of-the-Most-Lethal-CIA-Interventions-in-Latin-America-20160608-0031.html"
target="_blank">involved</a> in numbers of
assassinations, military coups, and interventions around
the globe with special regard against progressive
governments in Latin America. And quite fitting comment
as the three-day visit underscores Bolsonaro’s embrace
of U.S. influence in Latin America to confront what he
calls a communist threat against democracy.</p>
<p>A theme the far-right populist leader insisted on
Sunday declaring he “always dreamt of freeing Brazil
from the dirty ideology of the left.” Combine this to
his well-known <a
href="https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Bolsonaro-Says-Democracy-Liberty-Depend-on-Military-20190308-0012.html"
target="_blank">praise</a> of the Brazilian
dictatorship, which caused forced disappearances,
torture, and killings over two decades, and the CIA does
not make such an “unexpected” place to visit after all.
Especially as he was accompanied by Brazilian Justice
Minister Sergio Moro, the same judge that led the
lawfare strategy to carry out the soft-coup against
ousted Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, and has been
allegedly linked to working for the agency. </p>
<p>After this chat in Langley, he is due to meet
like-minded President Donald Trump at the White House on
Tuesday to discuss a range of issues, including ways to
increase U.S. private-sector investment in Brazil and
also the ongoing interventionists actions against
Venezuela. Bolsonaro has stated that he supports Trump’s
policies and the fact that he wants “to have a great
Brazil just like Trump wants to have a great America,”
has dubbed him the nickname “Trump of the Tropics”.</p>
<p>Yet this public admiration is even surprising to the
U.S. A senior administration official, who spoke to
reporters on condition of anonymity, said “even the
friendliest of Brazilian governments was never really
that friendly. Here we have now a government in Brazil
we truly consider an ally.” A remarkable claim as the
1964 coup and Brazilian Dictatorship was fully backed by
the U.S. government and even received direct assistance
from the CIA, as the National Security Archive (NSA)<a
href="https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB465/"
target="_blank"> revealed</a> in 2014. </p>
<p>Leaving the controversy aside Bolsonaro’s first
official visit marks a complete alliance to the U.S.
strategy and plans for the region, in which Brazil hopes
to play a pivotal role. </p>
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