{"id":167,"date":"2006-05-16T09:29:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T13:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=167"},"modified":"2006-05-16T09:29:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T13:29:38","slug":"sometimes_he_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2006\/05\/sometimes_he_ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes he makes sense&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ch&aacute;vez, I mean, although I&#8217;m not a fan of his antics&#8230; As for America &#8220;losing influence in the region&#8221;, they&#8217;ve been doing that to themselves for over 50 years in the hearts of the people, with facts and political rhetorics. A Dictator is a Dictator, is a Dictator, ad nauseam. It doesn&#8217;t matter if they wear the Fascist &#8220;Black&#8221; or the Socialist &#8220;Red&#8221;. The U.S. has had, and still has, a sad history of supporting all those &#8220;Black-clad&#8221; dictators in the past and that didn&#8217;t endear them with the peoble that was being oppressed by them. What really hurts the American government is to have a dictator to whom they cannot attach puppet strings. But of course, they expect to win every single one of their chess matches. If &#8220;Rome&#8221; was ever a clue&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"BBC NEWS | Americas | US bans arms sales to Venezuela\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4774475.stm\">BBC NEWS | Americas | US bans arms sales to Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s the empire and it has a great capacity to do harm to the countries of the world,&#8221; he told the Associated Press news agency.<br \/>\nHe said his government would not respond with punitive measures.<br \/>\nUS officials argue that the rule of President Chavez is eroding democracy and human rights in Venezuela and that he is working to undermine American influence in the region.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ch&aacute;vez, I mean, although I&#8217;m not a fan of his antics&#8230; As for America &#8220;losing influence in the region&#8221;, they&#8217;ve been doing that to themselves for over 50 years in the hearts of the people, with facts and political rhetorics. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2006\/05\/sometimes_he_ma\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}