{"id":82521,"date":"2016-11-07T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=82521"},"modified":"2016-11-06T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:02:04","slug":"dilma-rousseff-brazils-media-trying-to-destroy-lula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/11\/dilma-rousseff-brazils-media-trying-to-destroy-lula\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilma Rousseff: Brazil&#8217;s Media Trying to Destroy Lula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_82522\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lula_brazil.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82522\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lula_brazil.jpg_1718483346.jpg\" alt=\"Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reviews the honor guard during a reception ceremony at Havana's Revolution Palace. | Photo: Reuters\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lula_brazil.jpg_1718483346.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/lula_brazil.jpg_1718483346-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reviews the honor guard during a reception ceremony at Havana&#8217;s Revolution Palace. | Photo: Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Rousseff said despite this campaign the leader of the Workers Party remains the candidate with most popularity for the 2018 presidential elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>5 Nov 2016 &#8211; <\/em>Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is under a &#8220;monstrous media campaign\u201d to destroy his public image, said former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff Friday in Montevideo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>RELATED: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/UN-Accepts-Petition-Stating-Brazil-Judge-Violated-Lulas-Rights-20161026-0020.html\" >UN Accepts Petition Stating Brazil Judge Violated Lula&#8217;s Rights<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lula has been recently under a monstrous deconstruction of his image by Brazilian media groups,&#8221; she said during an event in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo.<\/p>\n<p>She visited Uruguay on Friday invited by the Frente Amplio party and the main workers union in that country.<\/p>\n<p>Rousseff added that despite this campaign the leader of the Workers Party remains the candidate with most popularity for the 2018 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O3j8WYEstk4<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the number of his supporters is increasing they are trying to prosecute him,&#8221; Rousseff said.<\/p>\n<p>The leader also highlighted that it is unpredictable what will happen in 2018 due to the political and economic situation in the country, in addition with what might come out from the ongoing investigation in the corruption scandal known as operation \u201cCar Wash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>RELATED: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Brazils-Lula-Faces-More-Charges-and-Possible-Imprisonment-20161007-0001.html\" >Brazil&#8217;s Lula Faces More Charges and Possible Imprisonment<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lula has been accused of having links with the corruption scandal involving state oil company Petrobras and allegedly received an apartment in Sao Paulo, he is also charged with obstruction of justice when he allegedly tried to buy the silence of former Petobras chief Nestor Cervero.<\/p>\n<p>The former president also faces charges of corruption and influence peddling to favor his business Odebrecht in Angola.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R6Pp1D9X8fw<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Dilma-Rousseff-Brazils-Media-Trying-to-Destroy-Lula--20161105-0010.html?utm_source=planisys&amp;utm_medium=NewsletterIngles&amp;utm_campaign=NewsletterIngles&amp;utm_content=8\" >Go to Original \u2013 telesurtv.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rousseff said despite this campaign the leader of the Workers Party remains the candidate with most popularity for the 2018 presidential elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}