{"id":14769,"date":"2019-06-21T15:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=8933234"},"modified":"2019-06-21T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:14:43","slug":"brian-mier-on-brazilian-political-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/06\/21\/brian-mier-on-brazilian-political-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Mier on Brazilian Political Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"The Brazilian anti-corruption crusade, called Car Wash or Lava Jato, that put popular ex-president Lula da Silva in prison and paved the way for fascist president Jair Bolsanaro\u2014all while being celebrated in the US corporate press\u2014was actually, as critics contended, less interested in corruption than in keeping Lula's Workers Party out of power.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/brian-mier-on-brazilian-political-scandal\/\">CounterSpin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian anti-corruption crusade, called Car Wash or Lava Jato, that put popular ex-president Lula da Silva in prison and paved the way for fascist president Jair Bolsanaro\u2014all while being celebrated in the US corporate press\u2014was actually, as crit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185573,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14769\/revisions\/185573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}