Lava Jato Wars I
Killing them softly....
So, I found these great articles from BrasilWire, an independent but generally left leaning (American type) news source that has some 240+ in depth articles on Lava Jato alone. I couldn’t in decades begin to match their not quite one just to do a marginal job of the detail encompassed in their work.
Not that this was ever even my goal. But I made a statement in our introduction to this series that this was a huge and deep operation on a par in size and impact with the takeover of Ukraine or 9/11. This part is basically about backing up that claim. The articles below are well worth your time if you are interested in all the detailed relationships, characters, and corporations involved.
First, for those who didn’t click over to our CFR link briefly outlining the bare bones carnage, here’s a recap. Twenty-one heads of state, twenty-eight other political roles, and six business related individuals. Those were the overt trophy heads that were collected in one manner or another by the time (boo hiss) Bolsonaro ended the probe. Seems rather politically skewed to me.
This may be why: the Council of the Americas (COA). “Where the State Department, Intelligence, and US business interests in Latin America convene.” A precursor agency was created in the early 1960s by David Rockefeller at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Langley had a full time case officer assigned before there was even a conference room.
The articles detail (in a somewhat jumpy manner) how these entities and persons listed below coordinated to produce what we now know as Lava Jato. And a whole lot more. Military groups and police are not generally included but do play roles as well. Only specific characters are listed because of well documented political actions.
There is no test coming on any of the below. The list is basically a snapshot. Of how important this was and how big a deal it still is today. A quick scan will tell you that my statement was not hyperbole.
COA Members and notable characters (in order of appearance): Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge Ltd, Goldman Sachs, Coca Cola, Continental Grain Co, BlackRock, BNP Paribas, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Scotiabank, Citigroup, Santander, Bayer-Monsanto, Dow Chemical, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Barrick Gold, Rio Tinto, Hothschild Mining, HSBC, JBS, Ambev, Deutsche Bank, Atlas Capital Management, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Boeing, Smartmatic, Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados, Justice Min. Edson Fachin, Prosecutor Gen. Rodrigo Janot, Robert D. Blackwell (CFR), Jennifer M. Harris (CFR), Brian Winter (COA), Amb. Tom Shannon, Jr. (AQ), Monica de Bolle (AQ), Amb. Donna Hrinak, Newmont Goldcorp, Kroll, Great Panther Mining, Barings Bank, Ford, Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold
Other contributing organizations: Human Rights Foundation, Atlas Network, Charles G Koch Charitable Foundation, Cato Institute, Institute of Human Studies, John Templeton Foundation, Movemento Brasil Livre, Vem Pra Rua, Free Trade Area of the Americas, Instituto Milenium, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly School of the Americas based at Ft. Benning, GA), FVEY, US DoJ, Albright Stonebridge Group
Political Parties: PSDB, DEM, PMDB, Novo
Persons: Ambassador Ayalde, Sen. Aloysio Nunes, Pres. Michel Temer, MFA Ernesto Araujo, SoS Mike Pompeo, Pres. Lenin Moreno, Fin. Min. Paulo Guedes, Brasilia CIA Chief Duane Norman, Gen. Sergio Etchegoyen, Gen. Villas Boas, Justice Min. Sergio Moro, AG Kenneth Blanco, US Dir. of Intelligence John D. Negroponte, Pres. Jair Bolsonaro, Thomas McLarty III, Terrance J. Checki (Former Federal Reserve), Fin. Min. Antonio Palocci Filho, Amb. Bill Rhodes, Asst. SoS Otto Reich, President Fernando Henrique Cardosa, SoS Hillary Clinton, Treas. Sec. Timothy Geithner, Hector Xavier Monsegur (aka Sabu), Jeremy Hammond (FBI hacker), SoS John Kerry, Michael Froman, Treas. Sec. Robert Rubin, Environ. Min. Ricardo Salles, Gov. Joao Doria, Tom Donilon (BlackRock Investment Institute + Bilderberg + Trilateral Commission), President Barack Obama, VP Joe Biden
Prior countries whose leaders were couped: Honduras, Paraguay, Ecuador
Media outlets: El Mercurio, America’s Quarterly (AQ - COA publication), NY Times, Guardian, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Canadian BC
A few anecdotes from the articles will suffice to round out the overall picture. But I will spotlight a few main points separately in future episodes.
Smartmatic (of US elections fraud fame) is a COA member and handles election data for Brazil and a healthy portion of Latin American countries.
Dilma Rousseff was impeached by a CIA soft coup for the reason that she refused to implement a mass destruction policy called “Bridge to the Future” which included a 20 year constitutionally enforced freeze on public education and health investment. Since it had originally been written in English then translated to Portuguese, you guess who wrote it. She also had called out these powers in a UN General Assembly. Tough girl.
The explosion of Evangelical and Pentecostal churches in Brazil and indeed South America, was a US backed counter measure to the more ingrained Liberation Theology. So that their far right plants would not stand out so much.
After Bolsonaro did everything his American handlers required of him, President Donald Trump blackballed him from the OECD (remember that priority?), after promising to approve his application. (What endorsement?)
More to follow.
Source Materials:
https://www.brasilwire.com/convivial-war-how-wall-street-recolonized-brazil-part-one/
https://www.brasilwire.com/smiling-assassins-convivial-war-part-two/
https://www.brasilwire.com/gold-against-the-soul-convivial-war-part-three/
https://www.brasilwire.com/part-four-how-wall-street-recolonized-brazil/
