mo4ch:>Nostalgia for coups past? Brazil’s Bolsonaro visits CIA before Trump on first US trip | Mo4ch News

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made his geopolitical priorities clear, dropping by CIA headquarters for a clandestine chat on his first visit to the US before even meeting with President Donald Trump.Bolsonaro’s visit was not published on his agenda and members of the press were barred at the door while the president and his justice minister, Sergio Moro, hobnobbed with the spooks at the agency’s Langley HQ.Moro, as Ben Norton pointed out on Twitter, led Operation Car Wash – the “money laundering investigation” that replaced former President Dilma Rousseff with the US-linked Michel Temer.The National Security Agency had been wiretapping Rousseff for years, making it that much easy to replace her with a compliant patsy – whose weakness Bolsonaro could then use as a springboard for his own reactionary candidacy. As Glenn Greenwald pointed out, the right-wing government was no longer even trying to hide its allegiance to an agency that has thought nothing of overthrowing regimes …