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O responsável pelo Consulado
estadunidense não gostava de Requião por ele ter estruturado a TV Paraná
Educativa (hoje e-Paraná), uma TV estatal paranaense. Lembremos que é a
Constituição da República de 1988 que exige a existências de forma equilibrada
de TVs estatais, públicas e privadas. Mas parece que isso não é importante para
o norte-americano.
No documento o Cônsul chama
Requião de populista, anti-globalização, anti-privatização, e anti-OGM
(organismos geneticamente modificados – transgênicos), e critica a Escola de
Governo que ocorria toda terça-feira durante o governo Requião, como forma de
dar transparência à gestão.
O Cônsul faz uma defesa da
propriedade privada e ataca Requião por ele ter questionado judicialmente as
altas tarifas do pedágio no Paraná e por ser um apoiador do MST.
O representante do império do
norte ainda ataca Requião por nepotismo, mas não há notícia de que os EUA
ataquem o atual governador Beto Richa (PSDB) por também contratar esposa e
irmão para secretarias.
Por fim, o pateta representante
norte-americano ainda chama Requião de ”PinoChavez” (populista autoritário),
informa que Requião é amigo de Lula e que “mesmo muitos dos seus detratores
admitem que ele trabalha duro e proporcionou um bom governo para o seu estado”.
Mas diz que os inimigos de Requião acham que ele é “mentalmente perturbado”. Diz
que Requião é teatral e que às vezes se assemelha a Hugo Chávez, amigo e aliado
a quem hospedou em Curitiba em abril de 2006.
Por fim informa que Requião quis
ser presidente da república em 2006 e que pensava em ser novamente em 2010.
Veja o documento original em
inglês:
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¶1. (SBU) Summary: A dispute between Parana
State Governor Roberto
Requiao and federal prosecutors and judges has
attracted widespread
media attention. Prosecutors accused the
Governor of using the
state’s public educational television channel
as a vehicle to
promote his own political agenda and to
disparage his opponents.
After a federal appeals judge ordered him to
desist, Requiao
responded by having technicians mute the sound
whenever he spoke and
flash CENSORED across his face in large red
letters. When the judge
then fined him 50,000 Reals (about USD 28,500),
Requiao declared
himself a “gagged Governor” and accused the
courts of violating his
freedom of expression. In the course of the
controversy, the
Governor temporarily pulled the offending
program off the air and
publicly upbraided the state’s Prosecutor
General so vociferously
that she submitted her resignation. This latest
imbroglio is but
one in a series of high-profile controversies
involving the
mercurial and unpredictable Requiao. End
Summary.
¶2. (U) Roberto Requiao of the Brazilian
Democratic Movement Party
(PMDB) was elected Governor of Parana in 2002, a state of 10.3
million immediately south of Sao Paulo. He was
re-elected in 2006
by the razor-thin margin of two tenths of one
percent, or about
10,000 votes. During his time in office, he has
undertaken a series
of populist measures – anti-globalization,
anti-privatization,
anti-GMO – that have earned him both plaudits
and harsh criticism.
¶3. (U) The latest case revolves around a
weekly program called
“School of Government,” which is carried by
Educational Radio and
Television of Parana (RTVE), the
government-funded public
broadcasting service. The program is designed
as a forum for state
employees to share experiences and views on the
challenges of public
administration and issues facing the
government. Requiao has
appeared on the show frequently since taking
office. Recently,
however, he has come to dominate the agenda
with his increasingly
strident and personal tone. Live and
unscripted, he freely
expresses his often unconstrained opinion of
other politicians, the
media, and various government entities,
including the judiciary.
¶4. (U) Federal prosecutors charged Requiao in
December 2007 with
misuse of public resources for personal ends. A
district court
found for the Governor, but Appeals Judge Edgar
Lippmann of the
Regional Federal Tribunal found merit in the
complaint. The judge
declined to pull the program from the airwaves
as prosecutors had
requested, but he ordered Requiao to stop
promoting his personal
agenda on the public airwaves. Never one to
take criticism sitting
down, the Governor appeared on the show the
following week but had
his voice muted and the word “CENSORED” flashed
in large letters
across the screen, together with the judge’s
name, whenever he
spoke. Judge Lippmann, not amused, fined the
Governor 50,000 Reals,
and on January 22, the Association of Federal
Judges of Brazil
(Ajufe) ordered RTVE to broadcast, every
fifteen minutes over a
24-hour period, its note of redress supporting
the judge and
criticizing the Governor for making a mockery
of judicial orders.
Requiao, outraged, ordered the station to close
down rather than
comply. This was when he had his loud
confrontation with state
Prosecutor-General Jozelia Nogueira Broliani,
who was seeking a
compromise solution. Shortly after the scene,
Broliani submitted
her resignation and gave press interviews
explaining why.
¶5. (U) Requiao allowed the station back on the
air the following
day, broadcasting both Ajufe’s note and his own
response to it. He
has cast the controversy in freedom of speech
terms. Requiao claims
the media dislike him because he cut the
state’s advertising budget,
and that prosecutors and judges have it in for
him because he has
criticized their high salaries. Some journalism
associations have
supported the Governor, arguing that the
appeals judge and Ajufe
went too far in trying to control the program’s
content. Even the
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Parana chapter of the Bar Association, while
deploring Requiao’s
treatment of the Prosecutor General, opined
that Ajufe’s insistence
on the repeated broadcast of its note in
support of the judge was
disproportionate.
¶6. (U) Eduardo Guimaraes, a municipal official
in the state
capital, Curitiba, and a long-time Requiao
watcher, told Poloff that
everyone was in suspense to see what would
happen on the next
episode of “School of Government,” scheduled
for Tuesday, January
¶29. It proved to be an anti-climax. Governor
Requiao was on
official travel – ironically, to Cuba – and
Lieutenant Governor
Orlando Pesutti took his place and delivered a
non-controversial
presentation on public works. The Carnaval
holiday offers the
Governor some time to decide whether he wants
to escalate the
conflict or let it die.
¶7. (SBU) Consul General (CG) called on
Governor Requiao in Curitiba
on January 14, in the midst of the
controversy. The mercurial
Requiao, in good form, quipped that he might
get even more political
benefit from judicial “censorship” than he is
accused of getting
from misusing public television.
¶8. (SBU) Governor Requiao is no stranger to
controversy and indeed
at times appears to welcome it. In 2003, for
example, he banned the
cultivation and transportation of genetically
modified organisms
(GMOs) within Parana state borders, essentially
diverting large
quantities of soy and other agricultural
products away from the Port
of Paranagua. (Note: The ban was a severe, if
temporary, blow to
port commercial activity. The Governor’s
brother, Eduardo Requiao,
is the Superintendent of the Administration of
the Ports of
Paranagua and Antonina. End Note.) The GMO ban
was challenged in
court and was eventually overturned by the
Superior Federal Tribunal
(STF). However, the effort made Requico a hero
to anti-GMO
activists and garnered a great deal of
attention, while earning him
the enmity of state agricultural and business
interests. Per
reftel, Requiao has expressed a desire to drive
Switzerland-based
GMO producer Syngenta Seeds out of the state,
and recently blamed
the company for a violent confrontation between
Landless Movement
(MST) militants and private security guards in
the company’s employ
that left two people dead.
¶9. (U) In August 2006, ConGen Sao Paulo was
briefly involved in a
contretemps with Requiao when portions of
then-CG’s remarks at the
signing of an agreement between U.S. Department
of Commerce and
Paranagua Port were incorporated out of context
in the Governor’s
televised campaign advertisements. Post was
obliged to issue a
clarification and insist that the Governor
remove the remarks from
the campaign ads.
¶10. (SBU) In anotehr episode, the Governor
refused to allow
concessionaires to raise the tolls on state
highways, even though
the increases were provided for under the
companies’ contracts with
the state. The previous administration had
privatized a number of
state roads, but Requiao, who opposes
privatization on principle,
said the tolls were too high. Again, the
concessionaires had to
take the state government to court to ensure
compliance with the
terms of the contract. Since that time,
militants from the Landless
Movement (MST), besides invading and occupying
rural property,
periodically attack toll booths, drive the
collectors out, let
traffic pass for free, and set up stands along
the highway to sell
their wares, while state police stand by and
watch. Many accuse
Governor Requiao, an acknowledged MST supporter
(reftel), of
encouraging these attacks. At the very least,
his views encourage
MST and anti-GMO activists to count on tepid
state law enforcement
action to protect property.
¶11. (U) In the aftermath of his confrontation
with the federal
judiciary, the Governor is facing renewed
criticism – and another
potential battle with prosecutors – over
alleged nepotism. In
addition to his brother Eduardo as Ports
Superintendent, another
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brother, Mauricio Requiao, serves as Secretary
of Education. Two of
his nephews also serve in state government, and
First Lady Maristela
Quarenghi de Melo e Silva is president of the
Oscar Niemeyer Museum
in Curitiba, a state entity that also receives
federal and private
funds.
¶12. (SBU) Comment: Requiao is a polarizing
figure who has been
characterized by one long-time political rival
as a “PinoChavez,”
i.e., an authoritarian populist. That said, he
is not without his
supporters. He has established good relations
with the Lula
administration and is given credit for obtaining
federal funding for
the state. Even many of his detractors admit
that he works hard and
has delivered good government to his state. While
some critics
claim he is mentally deranged, there appears to
be considerable
political calculation in his theatrics; in this
respect, he
sometimes resembles Hugo Chavez, a friend and
ally whom he hosted in
Curitiba in April 2006. Sao Paulo Federal
Police Superintendent Dr.
Jaber Makul Hanna Saad, who worked closely for
many years with
Governor Requiao in Curitiba, told CG in late
January that Requiao
is considerably better than his rhetoric,
although he will “do what
is needed” to advance his political fortunes. Governor
Requiao
briefly sought his party’s presidential
nomination in 2006 and may
be thinking of trying again in 2010.
¶13. (SBU) Comment continued: In this
particular instance, the real
issue is Requiao’s partisan use of what is
intended as a neutral
public service broadcasting vehicle.
Unfortunately, the line
between providing information on government
activities and purveying
political propaganda is not always clear,
especially to Brazilian
politicians, and Requiao is uniquely
susceptible to losing sight of
acceptable boundaries. End Comment.
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o que pode se esperar de um consul americano, que defende suas estatais e quer destruir a dos outros países tomando a qualquer preço. Esse consul é uma um tirano da ditadura norte americana imposto em todos os países que eles querem dominar. Requiao é homem que luta pelo BRASIL, TEM SANGUE NAS VEIAS, é direito e ele o tal do consul por nao ter nada contra Requiao so poderia sair com essas abobrinhas de muleque
ResponderExcluirÉ a arrogância típica de um povo que se acredita superior aos demais. Requião nunca teve papas na lingua e isso incomoda tanto lá como cá
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