Brazil's leader in bribe trouble

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A tape shows a senior government official agreeing to rewrite an online lottery contract to benefit a numbers-game kingpin in exchange for cash

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , RECIFE, BRAZIL
Tuesday, Feb 17, 2004,Page 7

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has come under growing fire with the emergence of a two-year-old videotape that shows a senior government official soliciting campaign contributions for two of the party's candidates and offering lucrative political favors in return.

The official, Waldomiro Diniz, was fired on Friday, hours after the incriminating video appeared on the Web site of Epoca, a weekly newsmagazine. But the resulting scandal threatens to engulf the left-wing government led by the Workers' Party, which has always portrayed itself as the only squeaky-clean force in the murky world of Brazilian politics.

Da Silva is the founder and historic leader of the party, and he ran three times for president as its candidate before finally winning in 2002.

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The PI doesn't even have any independent (that couldn't be manufactured) on Estrada but he's been in jail for the last 2 years. In fact, it was a coup with Whore Arroyo. Just like Musharraf Pakistan.