Recordings target a member of the economic team and increase pressure on Temer

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 23 May 2016 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

Today’s Folha de S. Paulo contains transcriptions of dialogue between Minister of Planning, Sen. Romero Jucá (PMDB-RR), and the former president of Transpetro, Sérgio Machado. The recordings suggest that a “change” in the government would result in a pact to “stop the bleeding” represented by the Lava Jato investigations, which are targeting both men.

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