Posted on 03/15/2005 6:29:59 PM PST by marron
A party at a hacienda 40 kilometers from Brasilia. Thirty leftist FARC supporters. The announcement of a $5 million dollar donation by the Colombian guerrillas to the Workers Party (PT). A six hour party that ended in a festive “forró”(a popular dance).
The details of the last Brazilian dance rest in the archives of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin). The report that describes the party and the announcement on April 25, 2002, catalogued by the number 0095/3100 and stamped secret, is the paper on which is based the latest investigation published by the magazine Veja.
The publication put the Brazilian government on alert. And although the office of Lula da Silva – member of PT – has not given an official version of the story, the Correo Braziliense published that they were preparing an official response to the article.
Veja printed that, in only one sheet and divided in three paragraphs, the document informs that on April 13, 2002, a group of leftists organized a festive political meeting at a hacienda. At this meeting the priest Oliverio Medina, who acted as a kind of ambassador for the FARC, announced the $5 million dollar donation to the PT campaign. The undercover agent described in the document that the news was greeted by applause, less than six months before the elections that would carry Lula to the presidency.
The supposed PT-FARC relationship is nothing new. The PT president, José Genoino Neto, in a communique that denied the Veja story, claimed that in the elections of 2002, José Serra who was then candidate for the PSDB party, also went down this road. The Superior Electoral Tribunal considered it then an empty charge.
According to sources close to Abin [Brazilian Intelligence], quoted by Correo Braziliense, the document exists, but it is a report: information that circulated in the agency with the possibility of becoming an investigation, which didn’t happen for lack of evidence.
The directors of Abin and members of the Security Cabinet met over the weekend to study how the government would respond to the charges. General Jorge Armando Félix, Minister of Institutional Security, appears today before a legislative commission to deny the authenticity of the documents concerning the supposed PT-FARC nexus.
Brazil/FARC ping. It just keeps getting better all the time.
Whatever deal FARC thinks they've got with the guy, odds are he'll betray them the second it makes him or his cronies some bucks!
The Brazilian people deserve good leadership. The country is potentially very rich.
How about the latest info on the three IRA terrorist who escaped from Colombia camping in Venezuela?
I didn't see that...
What is really scary is that Brazil could probably have a nuclear capability within a few years. They were close to developing nuclear weapons in the 1970's and 1980's and still possess much of the equipment and research from that time. All we need is someone like Chavez with some nuclear weapons.
Thanks Marron - what an amazing story!
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