{"id":352106,"date":"2018-03-14T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T10:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/odebrecht-related-bribe-revelations-threaten-to-wipe-out-peruvian-political-establishment\/"},"modified":"2018-03-14T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T10:50:01","slug":"odebrecht-related-bribe-revelations-threaten-to-wipe-out-peruvian-political-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/odebrecht-related-bribe-revelations-threaten-to-wipe-out-peruvian-political-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Odebrecht-related bribe revelations threaten to wipe out Peruvian political establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Odebrecht-related bribe revelations threaten to wipe out Peruvian political establishment<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Armando Cruz and Cesar Uco<br \/>\n    <br \/>14 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>A political earthquake was let loose early this month in Peru when the main business representative of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, Jorge Barata, testified to Brazilian and Peruvian prosecutors that the multinational had paid out bribes in the form of campaign contributions\u2014amounting to several million dollars\u2014to the main political figures who have ruled the country from the beginning of the last decade up to the current president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (PPK).<\/p>\n<p>Barata\u2019s testimony\u2014part of a guilty plea in the Brazilian Lava Jato investigation into corruption\u2014not only implicates all the presidents who ruled Peru since the collapse of the autocratic, corrupt government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), but also Lima\u2019s former \u201cleft\u201d mayor, Susana Villar\u00e1n (2011-2014), and the main big business federation CONFIEP. The corruption seeped down to all of these figures\u2019 main subordinates in the state apparatus as well as their associated political parties.<\/p>\n<p>These revelations have led many to question the political future of all the figures involved, the most visible faces of the Peruvian political class for over a generation. Many commentators are arguing that all of them should withdraw from political life (if they manage to avoid jail) and that a new political class rise to fill the vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the previous testimony that the former CEO of the Brazilian multinational that bears his name, Marcelo Odebrecht, gave in another guilty plea last year, detailing the bribes paid to officials of different Peruvian governments to secure giant construction and infrastructure contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Odebrecht\u2019s detailing of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/14\/peru-m14.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Odebrecht-related bribe revelations threaten to wipe out Peruvian political establishment By Armando Cruz and Cesar Uco 14 March 2018 A political earthquake was let loose early this month in Peru when the main business representative of the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, Jorge Barata, testified to Brazilian and Peruvian prosecutors that the multinational had paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}