{"id":26641,"date":"2019-02-23T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26641"},"modified":"2019-02-23T13:01:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T18:01:39","slug":"how-venezuela-struck-it-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/02\/23\/how-venezuela-struck-it-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"How Venezuela Struck It Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Foreign Policy <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/07\/16\/how-venezuela-struck-it-poor-oil-energy-chavez\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How Venezuela Struck It Poor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe tragic \u2014 and totally avoidable \u2014 self-destruction of one of the world\u2019s richest oil economies.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article gives a quite different look at the issues in Venezuela than what I have been presenting on this blog.  I don&#8217;t endorse it, nor do I deny what it is saying.  I just add all this information into my big storehouse in my brain in  the hopes that someday I may figure something out.<\/p>\n<p>As I read this story and its contradictions to my previous held beliefs, I did also notice some self contradictions in the narrative it was weaving.  However, I do not consider these self-contradictions enough to discredit the article.  Of course, I can detect the story&#8217;s bias against socialism and its preference for oligarchic capitalism, but I still try to keep an open mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Policy has the article How Venezuela Struck It Poor. The tragic \u2014 and totally avoidable \u2014 self-destruction of one of the world\u2019s richest oil economies. This article gives a quite different look at the issues in Venezuela than what I have been presenting on this blog. I don&#8217;t endorse it, nor do I deny [&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-26641","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\/26641","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=26641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26642,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26641\/revisions\/26642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}