Brazilian policy towards Middle East and the Arab world harm US strategy in the region according to US embassy diplomatic cables between 2004 and 2009, recently exposed by Wikleaks.
Brazilian president Lula da Silva concludes his eight years in office with a performance marked by open corruption “among his closest political allies”, with a “plague” of vote-buying in Congress and the ruling party, and without having given a reply to the issue of crime.
United States secret diplomatic messages released Sunday through WikiLeaks reveal that Brazilian authorities arrested “several suspects allegedly involved in terrorism financing activities”, but basically accused them of different charges “so as not attract attention from the press or high government levels”.