The law passed after Brazil’s 2013 protests enabled the later plea-bargain prosecutions

Evidence

Lava Jato, meaning “Car Wash” or “Jet Wash,” was named after a small gas station scam that gave rise to the operation. Launched in 2014, it quickly grew into an ambitious and powerful investigative force. Lava Jato was different from those previous attempts for two major reasons. First, the task force made ample use of the practices made possible by Lei 12.850/2013, the law passed in the flurry of reactions to the June 2013 protests. They arrested people for the purposes of interviewing them (condução coercitíva), they threatened to throw the book at them, and then they offered a plea deal (delação premiada) in exchange for someone giving up a bigger fish. And second, they made ample use of the media. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 605

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• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Emergency anti-protest legislation quietly enabled plea-bargain prosecutions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 440