Brazil is set to hold an auction on 5G frequencies in the coming years, but they are being put under pressure by the U.S. to remove Chinese company Huawei from the dispute. Why? It’s because the U.S. suspects the Chinese government of installing backdoors into Huawei’s technology for espionage purposes. But new revelations from the Washington Post show that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been doing the same thing for decades, particularly during one of the most brutal periods of recent South American history.
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