{"id":819779,"date":"2022-09-30T05:52:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=256391"},"modified":"2022-09-30T05:52:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:52:56","slug":"what-brazils-election-tells-us-about-violence-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/30\/what-brazils-election-tells-us-about-violence-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"What Brazil\u2019s Election Tells us about Violence and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When doing fieldwork for my book on Brazilian social movements in 2010, I heard many people express a kind of qualified support for the outgoing Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva administration. Lofty goals, from eradicating hunger, to challenging US-backed free market reforms, propelled the former steelworker and labor leader into power when first elected in  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/30\/what-brazils-election-tells-us-about-violence-and-democracy\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/30\/what-brazils-election-tells-us-about-violence-and-democracy\/\">What Brazil\u2019s Election Tells us about Violence and Democracy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/30\/what-brazils-election-tells-us-about-violence-and-democracy\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When doing fieldwork for my book on Brazilian social movements in 2010, I heard many people express a kind of qualified support for the outgoing Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva administration. Lofty goals, from eradicating hunger, to challenging US-backed fr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819779"}],"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\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819780,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819779\/revisions\/819780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}