{"id":5541,"date":"2013-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/the-news\/840-on-the-up-changing-lives-in-brazil.html"},"modified":"2013-01-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T00:00:00","slug":"on-the-up-changing-lives-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/on-the-up-changing-lives-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"On the up: Changing lives in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstChild\">Just over ten years ago I went backpacking in  Brazil for a month with some friends. We arrived in Rio de Janeiro, one  of the world\u2019s great party towns, at nightfall and found, to our dismay,  that we couldn\u2019t get a caipirinha for love nor money. It turned out  that we\u2019d landed on the day of the presidential elections and there was a  blanket ban on sales of alcohol because the authorities were concerned  that violence might erupt if politics mixed with booze.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually we managed to persuade a man running one of the street  food outlets on the Copacabana beach to sell us a beer. He told us that  the winner of the election would be a man known as Lula. Lula, leader of  PT, the worker\u2019s party, went on to become perhaps the most popular  president in the history of Brazil, introducing sweeping social reforms  designed to lift millions of Brazilians out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BusinessCloudNews\/~4\/bDOnrm6cIFU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over ten years ago I went backpacking in  Brazil for a month with some friends. We arrived in Rio de Janeiro, one  of the world\u2019s great party towns, at nightfall and found, to our dismay,  that we couldn\u2019t get a caipirinha for love nor money. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}