Brazil's acting president was US intelligence informant

Brazil's new interim president, Michel Temer, was an embassy informant for US intelligence, WikiLeaks on Friday revealed.

A cable published by the whistleblowing website shows a document sent from Sao Paolo, Brazil, to - among other recipients - the US Southern Command in Miami. In it, Temer discusses the political situation in Brazil during the presidency of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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