{"id":26474,"date":"2019-02-04T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26474"},"modified":"2019-02-04T16:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:37:53","slug":"venezuela-primer-pt-1-why-did-venezuelans-elect-hugo-chavez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/02\/04\/venezuela-primer-pt-1-why-did-venezuelans-elect-hugo-chavez\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Primer Pt. 1: Why Did Venezuelans Elect Hugo Ch\u00e1vez?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Real News Network <\/em>has the segment <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/stories\/venezuela-primer-pt-1-why-did-venezuelans-elect-hugo-chavez\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela Primer Pt. 1: Why Did Venezuelans Elect Hugo Ch\u00e1vez?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOver and over again US media outlets make the claim that Venezuela was the &#8220;jewel of Latin America&#8221; before Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998 and that his election marked the country&#8217;s downfall. In part 1 of this Venezuela primer, on the 20th anniversary of Chavez first taking office on February 2, 1999, we look at what led up to his election\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fWJhV5JUhBE\" style=\"border: thick risge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Notice the Andrea Mitchell segment at the beginning of the video.  When I saw her smugly reporting this, I knew she was lying.  NBC had been the last oligarchs&#8217; news media that was on my list as being worth viewing. It was shortly after that Mitchell report that I decided that I had to wipe NBC off my list.  It&#8217;s not for nothing that TRNN calls itself <em>The Real News Network<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real News Network has the segment Venezuela Primer Pt. 1: Why Did Venezuelans Elect Hugo Ch\u00e1vez? Over and over again US media outlets make the claim that Venezuela was the &#8220;jewel of Latin America&#8221; before Hugo Chavez was elected in 1998 and that his election marked the country&#8217;s downfall. In part 1 of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26474"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26480,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26474\/revisions\/26480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}