{"id":154,"date":"2016-10-06T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-10-06T07:06:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T07:06:14","slug":"brazils-former-president-lula-in-new-corruption-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2016\/10\/06\/brazils-former-president-lula-in-new-corruption-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s former President Lula in &#8216;new corruption charge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BBC:<\/strong> Brazil&#8217;s ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been charged with corruption again, local media say.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly helped a relative of his ex-wife win a contract for construction giant Oderbrecht in Angola.<\/p>\n<p>Police have yet to confirm the news. But in a statement on Facebook Lula said he had always &#8220;acted within the law&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the third indictment against the politician who served two terms as president, stepping down in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year he was charged for allegedly obstructing investigations. He is also accused of benefitting from a vast corruption scheme at state oil giant Petrobras.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" class=\"bbccom_slot mpu-ad\"><\/div>\n<p>A statement on Lula&#8217;s Facebook page said his lawyers would &#8220;analyse the document from the federal police, which was leaked by the media and revealed in a sensational way before the defence had access&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It went on to refer to a &#8220;media massacre&#8230; to try and destroy the image of the most popular president in the country&#8217;s history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months the reputations of both Lula and his Workers&#8217; Party have suffered a blow with corruption allegations and a recession in Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Brazil&#8217;s ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been charged with corruption again, local media say. He allegedly helped a relative of his ex-wife win a contract for construction giant Oderbrecht in Angola. Police have yet to confirm the news. But in a statement on Facebook Lula said he had always &#8220;acted within the law&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}