MORE ON\u00a0LATIN AMERICA<\/a><\/h4>\n\n- Brazil court to rule on ex-leader Lula’s jail term<\/a>today<\/li>\n
- Rights groups decry murder of Maria Magdalena Cruz Rojas<\/a>yesterday<\/li>\n
- Murder in Rio: Marielle Franco and Brazil’s media divide<\/a>2 days ago<\/li>\n
- Netflix series on Brazil’s corruption exposes political divisions<\/a>yesterday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
Thousands of Brazilians have protested across the country, calling for former President\u00a0Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva<\/a>\u00a0to be\u00a0jailed<\/a>\u00a0following his corruption conviction.<\/p>\nThere were also rival demonstrations, in support of Lula, the day before the Supreme Court decides whether he should start his sentence.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Sao Paulo,\u00a0Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted by: Colin Bunn Al Jazeera Brazil court to rule on ex-leader Lula’s jail term Tensions are rising ahead of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling on whether to accept former president’s argument that he cannot be sent to jail to serve a 12-and-a-half year sentence for corruption until he has exhausted all appeals. by Lucia Newman 3 hours ago MORE ON\u00a0LATIN… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Thousands of Brazilians have protested across the country, calling for former President\u00a0Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva<\/a>\u00a0to be\u00a0jailed<\/a>\u00a0following his corruption conviction.<\/p>\n There were also rival demonstrations, in support of Lula, the day before the Supreme Court decides whether he should start his sentence.<\/p>\n Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from Sao Paulo,\u00a0Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted by: Colin Bunn Al Jazeera Brazil court to rule on ex-leader Lula’s jail term Tensions are rising ahead of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling on whether to accept former president’s argument that he cannot be sent to jail to serve a 12-and-a-half year sentence for corruption until he has exhausted all appeals. by Lucia Newman 3 hours ago MORE ON\u00a0LATIN… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}