“When the left accuses them of something it is because they are doing that thing”

This Thursday (1), when speaking about the accusations of maintaining a “parallel Abin” in his government, former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said that “when the left accuses someone of something it is because they (the left ) is the one doing this thing.” The statement was made during an interview given to the program Sin Filterfrom the west magazine.

To explain the statement, Bolsonaro turned to the biographical book: A black sheep in power – Confessions and intimacies of Pepe Mujica. Released in 2015, the book contains confidential information from the former president of Uruguay about the use of Venezuelan, Cuban and Brazilian intelligence by former president Dilma Rousseff (PT).

Bolsonaro cited an episode narrated in the book in which Dilma and an advisor to Mujica met secretly in 2012, and the PT member sought the support of the then president of Uruguay to remove Paraguay from Mercosur and integrate Venezuela into the bloc.

Mujica was against the removal of Paraguay and Dilma was orchestrating a reprisal against that country because of the impeachment by former president Fernando Lugo, a friend of the PT member and member of the São Paulo Forum.

As reported by Mujica in the book, his advisor traveled from Uruguay to Brazil on a Brazilian Air Force aircraft at the behest of President Dilma.

“How would Mujica be convinced to remove Paraguay? Dilma gave this advisor a collection of materials. He had photographs, videos, telephone recordings, snooping material there. And where is the most important part of all this? This material was obtained by Cuban and Venezuelan intelligence […] So, the serious fact: Dilma Rousseff used Cubans, Venezuelans and Abin itself to obtain her reports and achieve her objectives. What happened at the time is a crime,” said Bolsonaro, citing excerpts from the book.

“We started talking about Abin at that moment, in 2012, and we have reached this moment where we are accused of having a ‘parallel Abin’”, concluded the former president.

When talking about the press coverage of the case, Bolsonaro cited the fake news released by the GloboNews about the search and seizure launched against councilor Carlos Bolsonaro (Republicanos-RJ) at the beginning of the week. The former president said he is still awaiting an invitation to be interviewed live by the broadcaster.

Bolsonaro also related the operation to the success of the “superlive” broadcast alongside his children the night before the operation.

“They (the PF) worked all night for the search and seizure the next day. It wasn’t on Carlos, they came to carry out a completely botched probationary fishery”, said the former president.

The PF’s thesis is that the councilor was involved in an alleged illegal monitoring scheme for authorities set up within Abin, when the Agency was headed by current federal deputy Alexandre Ramagem (PL-RJ), who was also the target of a seizure search. days before.

Finally, Bolsonaro cited the “rigging” of the PF and Abin by President Lula’s (PT) government.