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### Viewing cable 08BRASILIA57, BRAZIL: (KIND OF) MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 BRASILIA 000057

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    FOR WHA, WHA/BSC, S/P, DRL

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/07/2018
    TAGS: KDEM PREL EAID BR
    SUBJECT: BRAZIL: (KIND OF) MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR
    DEMOCRACY

    REF: STATE 169367

    Classified By: DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION PHIL CHICOLA FOR REASONS 1.4 B A
    ND D

    ¶1. (C) Summary:  For the world's fourth largest democracy,
    the promotion of democracy abroad remains an important, if
    secondary goal of Brazil's foreign policy, but its focus and
    execution has been only loosely defined under the Lula
    government, limiting potential efforts to forge bilateral
    initiatives with Brazil to non-controversial projects
    targeted at countries not deemed strategic by either Brasilia
    or Washington.  While Lula and his senior officials liberally
    pepper their speeches with references to the importance of
    promoting democratic norms and institutions, practice reveals
    a mixed picture--one where the current set of senior
    policymaker's leftist ideological leanings and skepticism of
    U.S. intentions, together with Brazil's history and
    self-image as a non-interventionist country, exercise a
    strong influence and impede explicit democracy-promotion
    initiatives.  Although the GoB's rhetoric and some of its
    initiatives do leave the door open to spur further engagement
    on Brazil's part, the possibilities for robust policies under
    the Lula government will remain low as long as
    "non-interventionist, but non-indifferent" defines the GoB's
    views on promoting democracy abroad.  End summary.

    -------------------------------------------
    Brazil's View of Democracy is Malleable...
    -------------------------------------------

    ¶2. (C) Conversations with foreign policy analysts, members of
    the Brazilian Congress, and working level contacts at
    Ministry of Foreign Relations (Itamaraty) Human Rights
    Division, which handles democracy promotion, reveal an often
    repeated theme that, before the return of democratic rule in
    Brazil almost 20 years ago, the GOB had no articulated policy
    of international democracy promotion.  Even after the return
    of democracy, Brazilian governments have placed a heavier
    emphasis, at the international level, on human rights,
    development, and trade issues.  The situation changed with
    the advent of democracy in both Argentina and Brazil in the
    1980s and with the creation of Mercosul.  Together, these
    developments became the most important factors in reducing
    the historic rivalry between the two neighbors.

    ¶3. (C) Professor Maria Helena de Castro Santos, who studies
    democratic consolidation in the Americas at the International
    Relations Department of the University of Brasilia, told
    poloff that the importance of democracy in changing the
    dynamic between Brazil and Argentina was not translated
    within Itamaraty into a specific theoretical framework on
    democracy promotion.  Instead, as seen through numerous
    statements made by President Lula and Foreign Minister Celso
    Amorim, almost any foreign policy initiative can be placed
    into the democracy promotion box.  For example, Lula and
    Amorim have claimed infrastructure projects in Latin America,
    development initiatives in Africa, promotion of human rights
    at the United Nations, production and export of biofuels,
    strengthening the multilateral system and reforming of the
    United Nations Security Council, creation of the Mercosul
    parliament, opening agricultural markets in developed
    countries, support for global efforts to fight hunger and
    disease, and its role in international peacekeeping missions
    are all bulwarks of its democracy promotion policy.  These
    can all be classified as such because, in their own words,
    democracy can only be achieved through an educated, healthy,
    hunger-free populace that enjoys peace.

    ¶4. (C) On the other hand, a mantra heard often in meetings
    with Itamaraty officials, and repeated in public speeches by
    senior Brazilian officials is the view that democracy is a
    means to other ends: namely, social justice, peace, and
    development.  That formulation allows Brazil to defend what
    Foreign Relations and National Defense Committee member
    Federal Deputy Raul Jungmann (PPS, Socialist People's Party,
    opposition; of Pernambuco) described to poloff as
    "democraduras," such as Venezuela--countries that Brazilian
    officials believe are achieving those things even if through

    BRASILIA 00000057  002 OF 004

    illiberal means.

    --------------------------------------------- ------
    ...But Cautious and Multilateralist Above All Else
    --------------------------------------------- ------

    ¶5. (C) Officials at Itamaraty often offer grudging support
    for democracy-promotion initiatives not-funneled through
    well-established international institutions.  For example,
    Carlos Eduardo da Cunha Oliveira of Itamaraty's Human Rights
    Division repeated an often-heard Itamaraty line when he told
    poloff that Brazil prefers to work through existing
    international institutions and pour its energies into
    strengthening organizations that already exist, rather than
    engage in new ones such as Community of Democracies or the
    Partnership for Democratic Governance.  Although Brazil
    decided to participate in both of these organizations, some
    at Itamaraty, including Oliveira, remain skeptical about
    their legitimacy and chances for long-term success, as they
    are seen as exclusionary organizations that are not founded
    on the premise of universalism.  As an example, despite
    Brazil's involvement in the East Timor peacekeeping mission
    and the assistance it has given through Itamaraty's
    development arm, the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC),
    Brazil was reluctant to engage in the East Timorese request
    for democracy capacity building as channeled through the
    Community of Democracies.  In a conversation with poloff,
    Christiane Almeida, a foreign policy advisor in the Brazilian
    Chamber of Deputies, characterized Brazil's role in East
    Timor as "typically timid" and coming "just late enough to
    avoid facing hard choices."  During the November, 2007
    Community of Democracies ministerial meeting in Bamako, Mali,
    contacts at the Human Rights Division told poloffs proudly
    that the Brazilian delegation worked to soften any language
    that was critical of democratic norms in particular
    countries.  One of the few exceptions to Brazil's
    multilateralist, hands-off approach has been the trilateral
    parliamentary capacity building initiative Brazil agreed to
    participate in with the United States in Guinea-Bissau signed
    through a Memorandum of Understanding in March 2007.
    Discreet, uncontroversial, requested by the government, and
    in a Lusophone country, it offered Brazil a project with
    little potential downside that also put it, at least in
    theory, on an equal footing with the US as a donor.

     --------------------------------------------- --------
    From Views to Policy: Speak Softly and Carry a Carrot
    --------------------------------------------- ---------

    ¶7. (C) One of the most salient aspects of Brazil's democracy
    promotion activities under the Lula government is their focus
    on initiatives that can be funneled through diverse
    organizations that highlight what Professor Alcides Costa
    Vaz, Deputy Director of the International Relations
    Department of the University of Brasilia described to poloff
    as Brazil's distinct and independent global reach.  President
    Lula, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, and presidential foreign
    affairs advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia have all characterized
    Brazil's approach to such activities as falling somewhere
    between "non-intervention" and "non-indifference". Many of
    these initiatives are performed outside of region-specific
    frameworks, and are performed in conjunction with a diverse
    set of partners such as the Community of Portuguese Speaking
    Countries (CPLP) or through the IBSA (India-Brazil-South
    Africa) fund.

    ¶8. (U) Most of the initiatives, proudly cited by Lula as
    helping to build democratic institutions across the globe,
    include the distribution of generic medicines, anti-HIV/AIDS
    projects, training of health care workers, literacy programs,
    establishment of vocational training centers, in almost every
    Lusophone African country; debt forgiveness in Mozambique;
    election monitoring through the CPLP in Sao Tome and Principe
    and Guinea-Bissau; and providing logistics and human
    resources for peacekeeping missions in Angola, East Timor,
    and Haiti.

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    ¶9. (C) A concern for many Brazilian analysts and legislators
    is whether the Lula administration would be willing to employ
    sticks instead of limiting itself to carrots if faced with
    the prospect of a Mercosul partner--namely,
    Venezuela--suffering from a crisis to its democratic system.
    In a meeting with poloff, Elir Cananea Silva, Legislative
    Consultant on International Law for the Brazilian Chamber of
    Deputies, noted one instance in which Brazil has in the past
    effectively used the tools of statecraft to promote democracy
    abroad, during the 1996 attempted coup in Paraguay against
    President Juan Carlos Wasmosy.  At the time, Brazil acted in
    concert with Mercosul partners Argentina and Uruguay and
    jointly issued statements condemning actions against the
    democratic order in Paraguay.  Subsequently, the Mercosul
    countries agreed on the Ushuaia Protocol of 1998, which
    institutionalized Mercosul's previously vague democracy
    clause and laid out specific actions the members would
    undertake in the case that that one suffered from a similar
    situation to Paraguay's.  Among other things, the Protocol
    allows the member states to suspend the rights of another
    member or associate state (currently Chile and Bolivia) if
    its democratic institutions are under threat.

    ¶10. (C) The analysts and officials with whom poloff talked
    all agreed it was difficult to imagine a repeat of the
    Paraguayan case with regard to Venezuela, at least under the
    Lula administration.  The decision to back entry of Venezuela
    into Mercosul is a political one taken in the interest of
    regional stability, in the hope that bringing President
    Chavez's government into a Brazil-dominated forum will help
    control Venezuela's destabilizing effect in the region.
    Therefore, despite the rising discontent evident in the
    Brazilian media and congress with some of Chavez'
    anti-democratic measures and over his frequent derogatory
    comments about the Brazilian Congress, Itamaraty and Lula
    continue to throw their full weight behind guaranteeing
    Venezuela's entry into Mercosul and are showing little
    concern, either in public or in private discussions, with the
    continuing erosion of democracy within that country.
    Publicly, President Lula and other senior officials deny such
    erosion is even occurring and occasionally go out of their
    way to burnish Chavez's democratic credentials to Brazilian
    media outlets.  Prior to the December 2 referendum on
    amending the Venezuelan constitution, Lula vigorously
    defended Chavez, stating that he could be criticized for a
    lot of things, but not for a lack of democracy.

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    ¶11. (C)  Brazil's engagement in various democracy-promotion
    initiatives is not a strategic objective of Brazil's foreign
    policy.  GOB participation in the various international
    democracy building organizations, its work through CPLP and
    IBSA, and its own development agenda is primarily driven by
    its strategic goal of projecting Brazil internationally as an
    independent global player, with support for democracy a
    secondary goal.  Likewise the GoB bills many of its foreign
    policy priorities, such as in its defense of developing
    country's prerogatives on Doha or its desire to become a
    permanent member of the UNSC, as democracy-building
    initiatives, even when they are primarily driven by Brazil's
    larger objective of increasing its economic and political
    influence on the global stage  When democracy-promotion
    features more explicitly as a goal behind Brazil,s
    international initiatives these tend towards the softer end
    of the policy spectrum, focusing on non-controversial
    development, education, and health projects.  These projects
    constitute the underpinnings of their pro-democracy rhetoric
    and highlight Brazil's growing role as donor country in these
    primarily development-oriented areas.  In addition to
    supporting Brazil's projection of its soft-power, they also
    serve to reduce pressure on the GoB to deal with the
    thorniest issues related to democracy promotion, such as
    pronouncing judgment with regard to particular countries on
    the level of press and religious freedom or dealing with

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    corruption--which also risk highlighting Brazil's poor
    internal record in this last area.

    ¶12. (C) Comment, cont: As a result, the potential for us to
    engage with Brazil on concrete democracy-promotion
    initiatives (as opposed to development, health or education
    projects that have a positive, but indirect, effect on
    democratic institutions in a given country) will remain
    limited by the priority the GoB place on other goals.  For
    example, being perceived as the junior partner to the US on a
    trilateral project could upset its goal of projecting its
    equal footing as a global power; defending democracy in
    Venezuela would hinder its strategic goals of maintaining
    regional stability and expanding and consolidating regional
    integration.  It is therefore unlikely that Brazil will step
    up to the plate to promote democracy when and where its
    efforts could matter the most.  Nonetheless, even if the GoB
    clearly has not formulated a coherent and consistent
    democracy promotion policy, both Lula and Amorim talk a good
    game by including democracy promotion among Brazil's most
    important foreign policy goals.  This can serve as a basis
    for encouraging Brazilian officials to remain consistent with
    their own avowed goal by assisting burgeoning and threatened
    democracies in tangible ways, and by speaking out in favor of
    democracy where it does not yet exist.

    SOBEL

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