Government Temer considering Spaceport delivery Alcantara to the United States
Government Temer considering Spaceport delivery Alcantara to the United States
Cruvinel says
The journalist Tereza Cruvinel wrote on Tuesday (26) about a possible resumption of the treaty granting the military base at Alcântara, in Maranhão. According to the report, the delivery of the spaceport to the United States would be an initiative of the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Serra. He was meeting with the Brazilian ambassador in Washington, Sergio Amaral, to resume trading.
No information about dates or deadlines, but the scenario is consistent with the submissive attitude of Serra. Since taking the folder, the new head of the Foreign Ministry has reversed decisions self-assertion of the last three administrations, including coordination with the BRICS and the promotion of South-South policies.
According to the report, the Alcantara lease would "broad powers" to the Americans, including the conduct of aerospace activities in secrecy. The choice of Amaral for the conduct of proceedings would not be in vain: in his many positions during the FHC government, he was one of the main partners of the PSDB president by the international community, building the submissive character that characterized the diplomacy under the PSDB. In 2000 the agreement, he was the rapporteur of the matter in the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense, and from there came the terms that would deliver Alcântara for Americans by 2002. The issue was shelved with the election of Lula, who considered "harmful national sovereignty ".
The Alcantara Launch Center has a unique feature on Planet Earth, which aroused the interest of many nations with aerospace technology. For its privileged location on the equator, the base reduces by 30% the cost of a launch. In practice, this represents tens of millions of dollars saved per operation. The Brazil holds partnerships with several countries to exploit this potential, including the United States.
Sabotage in the Brazilian Space Program
The controversy around the base of Alcântara is exacerbated by the major accident occurred in August 2003, when the launch of a rocket turned into a catastrophic fire, killing dozens of people. The event not only took the lives of many skilled professionals in the space research field, as threw a bucket of cold water on the program, then one of the most active in the world.
Although it was initially considered a technical error, a series of documents leaked by Wikileaks in 2011 revealed later that the US government was open opposition to the success of the Brazilian mission, working behind the scenes to prevent any technology transfer agreements the Brazilian Air Force. This has led many analysts to speculate about the role that the US had in the accident at launch, with interpretations pointing to possible technologies that would have prevented even the possibility of direct sabotage by geopolitical reasons.
Specifically, what is known is that the US adopt a posture of impediment to the transfer of space technologies to Brazil. A conspicuous example is the binational company Alcantara Cyclone Space (ACS), founded in partnership with the government of Ukraine still in 2003 for the construction of the Cyclone-4 rocket. As revealed by Wikileaks, the initiative was largely boycotted by the United States, which use economic pressures and policies to limit the contributions of Ukraine in the project. Over 13 years, the partnership failed to bear fruit, despite the Brazilian government investment.
With the American spy revelations about President Dilma Rousseff in 2013, sabotage theory gained new strength among analysts. If there is in fact the reactivation of the agreement, it will be impossible to ignore the possibility of US interference in Alcantara.
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11 JUL 2012
Wikileaks: It reveals very serious sabotage US against Brazil endorsed by FHC and death of a Brazilian
For Brazil , a Father of All
Telegrams reveal veto intentions and US actions against the Brazilian technological development with the interests of various actors who hold or have held power in both countries
US diplomacy cables revealed by Wikileaks revealed that the White House take concrete actions to prevent, hinder and sabotage the Brazilian technological development in two strategic areas: nuclear energy and space technology. In both cases, there is the anti-national role of the great Brazilian media and flings open up, also unsurprisingly, the role played by former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, harvested in a lush line with the strategic interests of the Department US State, the time displays problematic position for the Brazilian technological independence. The following article by journalist Beto Almeida.
Telegrams reveal veto intentions and US actions against the Brazilian technological development with the interests of various actors who hold or have held power in both countries
US diplomacy cables revealed by Wikileaks revealed that the White House take concrete actions to prevent, hinder and sabotage the Brazilian technological development in two strategic areas: nuclear energy and space technology. In both cases, there is the anti-national role of the great Brazilian media and flings open up, also unsurprisingly, the role played by former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, harvested in a lush line with the strategic interests of the Department US State, the time displays problematic position for the Brazilian technological independence. The following article by journalist Beto Almeida.
The first of the disclosed telegrams, dated 2009, says that the US government pressured Ukrainian authorities to jam the development of Brazil-Ukraine joint project of implementation of the launch pad of the Cyclone-4 rockets - Ukrainian production - in Releases Center Alcântara, in Maranhão.
veto imperial
The telegram from the American diplomat in Brazil, Clifford Sobel, sent to the US in February of that year, reports that Ukrainian representatives, through its embassy in Brazil, made steps to ensure that the US government revise the boycott position to the use of Alcantara for launch any satellite manufactured in the USA. The American response was clear. The mission in Brasilia should inform the Ukrainian ambassador, Volodymyr Lakomov, that the US "does not want" any space technology transfer to Brazil.
"We want to remind the Ukrainian authorities that the US did not oppose the establishment of a launch platform in Alcantara, as long as such activity does not result in the transfer of rocket technology to Brazil," said a telegram excerpt.
Elsewhere in the document, the US representative is even more explicit with Lokomov: "Although the US is prepared to support the Ukrainian-Brazilian joint project, since the TSA (US-Brazil Safeguards Agreement) enters into force, we do not support the native program of space launch vehicles in Brazil. "
Shift in foreign policy
The Brazil-US Safeguards Agreement (TSA) was signed in 2000 by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, but was rejected by the Brazilian Senate after the arrival of Lula at the Planalto and yaw registered in Brazilian foreign policy, the same as much to bury the FTAA . In its rejection the Brazilian Parliament considered that its terms were an "affront to national sovereignty." The document, Brazil cede areas of Alcântara for US exclusive use without allowing any Brazilian access. In addition to the occupation of the area and the prohibition of any engineer or Brazilian coach in the release areas, the treaty provided US-based inspections without notice.
The diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks speak of the US veto to the development of Brazilian technology for rockets and indicate candida hope still maintained by the White House that the TSA is finally implemented as intended to former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso . But not only the White House and the former representative striven for serious limitation of the Brazilian Space Program because this effort some NGOs, often funded by international programs run by colonizing mentality, acted to curb the indispensable Brazilian technological leap to enter the select and fechadíssimo club of countries with capacity for economic exploitation of outer space and to launch satellites. Join them, the national media not highlighted the very serious confession of American sabotage against Brazil, probably because such an attitude contrary to its editorial historically refractory to national efforts for technological independence achievement in any area whatsoever. Especially where more displeasing the metropolises.
Bomb! Bomb!
The other telegram from US diplomats published by WikiLeaks and also reveals veto intentions and actions against the Brazilian technological development came to the fore pie shape by Veja Magazine, and speaks of the gringa concern about the work of a Brazilian physicist, Ceará Dalton Girão Barroso, the Military Institute of Engineering, Army. Girao published a book with simulations developed himself, which would have deciphered the mechanisms of the most powerful US nuclear bomb, the W87, whose technology is saved to 7 keys.
The first suspect revealed in diplomatic cables was spying. Also, given the accuracy of calculations Girao, that there would be in Brazil a secret nuclear program, contrary, from the viewpoint of the USA, endorsed by the magazine, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed by Brazil in 1998, As the Brazil-US Safeguards Agreement on the use of the Alcântara Base, the NPT was signed by Fernando Henrique. Based only on an imperial suspicion that the formulas used by the Brazilian scientist could be used by terrorists, the US, urged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which demanded an explanation from the government Brazil, even to propose the book collection-censorship "The physics of nuclear explosives." Requirement considered by the Brazilian military authorities as "IAEA undue interference in academic activities of an institution subordinated to the Brazilian Army."
As is known, the Minister of Defense, Nelson Jobim, vocalizing position of the military opposed to undue interference, is opposed to the signing of the Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty, which would give the IAEA, controlled by the nuclear powers, right to unrestricted access to Brazilian nuclear facilities. Access that do not allow their own facilities, even though of course the failure, for years, a central goal of the NPT, which not only determines the non-proliferation but also nuclear disarmament of countries that are armed, which is not.
unilateral disarmament
The journal publishes providential statement of the physicist José Goldemberg, of course, in support of its editorial line of unilateral disarmament and renunciation of the sovereign nuclear technology development, as has been achieved by other countries, including Israel, never the target of sanctions by the IAEA or the UN, as it is against Iran. According to Goldemberg, a former secretary of science and technology, it is almost impossible that Brazil does not have in progress a project that could be easily directed to the production of an atomic bomb. All that the US wants to listen to strengthen the line of vetoes and technological constraints in Brazil, as shown in the cables released by Wikileaks. On the other hand, all that the US wants to hide from the world is the proposal that Mahmud Ajmadinejad, president of Iran, presented to the UN General Assembly, to be brought to discussion and implementation: "Nuclear energy for all, nuclear weapons for no one ". So far, strictly withheld to world public opinion.
Interventional growing
The newspaper also publishes frank and revealing statement of former President Cardoso: "If there is no nuclearized external enemies, neither Brazil intending to take a bellicose regional policy, so that the pump?" With the energy treasure that has on the seabed, or biodiversity, with abundant strategic minerals has underground and on the growth of military budgets of the great powers, followed by the imperial interventionism in various parts of the world, ignoring laws or borders, the former president statement is, say, a candor formidable.
the tunings between the foreign policy of the previous decade and the publishing of the mainstream media online support to the guidelines issued by the White House are known. So these media poles of unilateralism in disenchantment process and crisis are so embarrassed in front of the new Brazilian foreign policy that acquires every day, strong dose of fairness and reasonableness the more telegrams of imperial diplomacy as the above are disclosed by Wikileaks .
NOTICE
Below is a note commented by Vladimir G. friend who is also very interesting in cases involving possible sabotages EUAxBrasil: In September 2006, this accident became the greatest tragedy in the history of aviation in Brazil, with 154 dead. Apparently, a collision between the wingtip of an Embraer jet with a fuselage 737 Gol caused the fall of the largest aircraft. Besides all the news speculating the cause of the crash, the search for bodies and wreckage in the forest, pilots of errors, failures of radar ... circulated at the time a very curious email, to say the least ...
The author of the text spoke of a team of Brazilian scientists on board the plane. According to the text, these scientists carried out research on the use of microorganisms in electric batteries, a revolutionary technology that would allow the production of more efficient batteries that modern lithium batteries used in laptops and mobile phones. This virus battery would be more powerful, producing more energy in a smaller battery and lighter than lithium. There are other research on this type of battery, especially in the United States, where there is a large project on these batteries. However, according to the text, the Brazilian project was further advanced and surpassed the American. Unfortunately, the team of scientists who worked on this project died in the accident.
Below is a note commented by Vladimir G. friend who is also very interesting in cases involving possible sabotages EUAxBrasil: In September 2006, this accident became the greatest tragedy in the history of aviation in Brazil, with 154 dead. Apparently, a collision between the wingtip of an Embraer jet with a fuselage 737 Gol caused the fall of the largest aircraft. Besides all the news speculating the cause of the crash, the search for bodies and wreckage in the forest, pilots of errors, failures of radar ... circulated at the time a very curious email, to say the least ...
The author of the text spoke of a team of Brazilian scientists on board the plane. According to the text, these scientists carried out research on the use of microorganisms in electric batteries, a revolutionary technology that would allow the production of more efficient batteries that modern lithium batteries used in laptops and mobile phones. This virus battery would be more powerful, producing more energy in a smaller battery and lighter than lithium. There are other research on this type of battery, especially in the United States, where there is a large project on these batteries. However, according to the text, the Brazilian project was further advanced and surpassed the American. Unfortunately, the team of scientists who worked on this project died in the accident.
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B) 06 RIO 0445
C) 05 RIO 0615
Classified by Ambassador Clifford Sobel, reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (C) Summary: Drawing on ref A, the Ambassador raised USG
concerns over potential Petrobras investments in oil and gas
exploration in Iranian waters on the Caspian Sea with Energy
Minister Silas Rondeau, Petrobras Southern Cone Manager Deccio
Oddone and Foreign Ministry Under Secretary for Political
Affairs Everton Vargas in a series of meetings March 25 and 26.
These meetings followed up on an August 22, 2006 one-on-one
conversation with Petrobras President Sergio Gabrielli in which
the Ambassador made the same points. Our interlocutors
acknowledged the seriousness of the issue to the international
community and, although they did not say Petrobras would halt
its Petrobras activities in Iran, they did make it clear that
they understand the sensitivity of the political moment.
Gabrielli also stated that Petrobras investments would not
exceed Iran Sanctions Act limits over the next two years. End
Summary.
2. (C) At an August 22, 2006 meeting with the Petrobras
President and CEO Sergio Gabrielli (ref B) the Ambassador
underscored with Gabrielli the importance of not investing in
Iran, and particularly not at this moment, when Iran was defying
the international community's efforts to stop uranium enrichment
activities. Gabrielli responded that he understood the U.S. was
exerting pressure on other countries, including Japan, to not
proceed with significant investments in Iran at this time. He
added that he understood that Japan had deferred its planned
investment as a result. Gabrielli affirmed that Petrobras'
investments in Iran over the next two years would not exceed the
Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) ceiling. However, he emphasized that
Petrobras believes it is important to build up a presence in
Iran in hopes of improving its international position in the
long-term trade. He expected any future investments to be
focused on deep-water exploration and production, which were
Petrobras' strengths. Gabrielli argued that were Petrobras or
other major international energy companies not to invest, it
would simply open the door for Chinese investment in Iran. The
Ambassador closed the meeting by underscoring that, particularly
with sanctions pending before the UNSC, it was important that
the international community send a unified message to the
Iranian regime by not pursuing investment in Iran.
3. (C) In a March 26, 2007 meeting, Minister of Mines and Energy
Silas Rondeau -- who sits on the Board of Directors of the
partially privatized parastatal -- told the Ambassador that
Petrobras and the GoB understood that this was a "cautious
moment" for the international community with regard to Iran.
While Petrobras believed it was in its interest to open up new
investment horizons, he understood that the GoB must also take
into account the concerns of its strategic partners as it
proceeded, and the U.S. was still Brazil's biggest strategic
partner.
4. (C) In separate meetings with Petrobras Southern Cone
Director Oddone and Itamaraty Under Secretary for Political
Affairs Vargas, the Ambassador was assured that Petrobras and
the GoB, respectively, took seriously USG concerns over Iran.
SOBEL
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