Of Brazil, the Rothschilds, and the BRIC
February 19, 2010 (LPAC)—Squatting on top of Brazil's "carry trade," that perverse, usurious operation sucking the life out of Brazil's 190 million people, is none other than the principal banker of the British Empire since the time of Napoleon: the Rothschild family. Scratch the surface of the Rothschild operations in Brazil, and you find the British Empire's "BRIC" operation, deploying Brazil as their false-flag gambit to screw Russia, China and India. The Rothschilds and Brazil have such a deep relationship, that the webpage of the family's own Rothschild Archive features a special page on Brazil, the only nation so singled out. They brag that "the links between NM Rothschild & Sons and the Brazilian nation go back as far as the founder of the bank," in the first decade of the 19th Century. Brazil declared independence from Portugal in 1822, but it didn't become a republic: it was ruled as an empire until 1889. Throughout, NM Rothschild was the "preeminent" banker for Brazil, an empire based on chattel slavery until 1888, only one year before the Empire finally fell. There were advocates of Hamilton's American System of Economics within the ranks of those who led the founding of the republic, but they and their plans to industrialize Brazil were soon pushed out. As the Rothschild archive dryly puts it: Although the Rothschilds were caught by surprise by the 1889 declaration of a republic, "they quickly adjusted to the situation.... The new republican government maintained its debt obligations to the Rothschilds," who continued on as European bankers to the Brazilian government, "helping" create the new central bank and the state's Banco do Brasil. Fast forward to today, where Mario Garnero, the Sao Paulo businessman whom Lord Jacob Rothschild calls "my fourth son," holds a controlling grip on the Lula da Silva government, jointly with Rothschild's allies in British-controlled Banco Santander of Spain. As capital fled the country in the run-up to the 2002 election, fed by fear that a Lula government could lead to Jacobin chaos or even a break with the banks, London's Santander chose to keep its credit lines open for Brazil, while Garnero organized a U.S. trip for top figures of the Lula campaign, securing them meetings with Wall Street and at the Bush, Jr. White House. Message delivered: Lula is "ours." Who is "ours"? Garnero has operated since 1975 out of the company he founded and still heads today, Brasilinvest Group, which pioneered the privatization and globalization of Brazil's economy. Describing itself as Brazil's first-ever "classic 'banque d'affairs' or 'merchant bank'," Brasilinvest unites the top scum of Anglo-Venetian finance, with shareholders and board members including Jacob Rothschild's son, Nat; Banco Santander; the infamous HSBC of Opium War heritage; the world's oldest bank, Italy's Banca Monte Dei Paschi Di Siena; Agnelli's FIAT; Belgium's Generale Bank, with its Belgian Congo heritage of horror. A fawning report in the May 26, 2004 issue of Brazil's IstoE magazine, describes the imperial trappings and discussions which took place at the lavish, three-day annual meeting of Brasilinvest's International Council that had just been held in London, under the personal direction of old Jacob Rothschild himself. It was there that Jacob called Garnero "my fourth son;" and there that the UK's Prince Andrew announced that the Brazilians shall play "a strategic role in the new setting of international trade relations," with Garnero serving as an informal ambassador between the UK and Brazil. Andrew hailed Garnero as an example of "how Brazil could lead in bringing trade relations closer between the West and the new markets of the East." Participating in that London confab, and serving still on the board of Brasilinvest, are two businessmen also key to the Rothschild's BRIC operation: Russia's aluminum king and Nat Rothschild buddy, Oleg Deripaska, and Chinese real estate mogul and businessman, David Tang, of DWC Tang Development. Rothschild agent Garnero first introduced Lula to Deripaska. And Garnero, before Lula's first trip to China as President, brought the head of the Chinese government investment fund, CITIC, to meet in Brasilia with President Lula, seven ministers, and other top government officials. http://www.larouchepac.com/node/13597
