{"id":26803,"date":"2019-03-14T17:09:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26803"},"modified":"2019-03-14T17:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T21:09:05","slug":"u-s-anti-war-movement-leaders-report-from-embattled-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/03\/14\/u-s-anti-war-movement-leaders-report-from-embattled-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. anti-war movement leaders report from embattled Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Workers World <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workers.org\/2019\/03\/12\/u-s-anti-war-movement-leaders-report-from-embattled-venezuela\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. anti-war movement leaders report from embattled Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCurcio discussed the U.S. role in creating the \u201chumanitarian crisis\u201d in Venezuela. These include shortages of basic necessities: toilet paper, corn, milk, coffee and vital medicines. To counter these shortages, the Bolivarian government established a distribution network to serve 6 million families by importing food, medicine and hygiene products.<\/p>\n<p>The current U.S. sanctions on Venezuela\u2019s oil, the blocking of its banking services and the edicts that prevent the government from using its gold reserves all restrict the ability of the Venezuelan government to satisfy basic needs.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, the U.S. has handed $11 billion worth of assets of Venezuela\u2019s national oil company, CITGO, directly to Juan Guaid\u00f3, a virtually unknown right-wing politician until U.S. Vice President Mike Pence suggested on Jan. 23 that Guaid\u00f3 nominate himself to be \u201cinterim president.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been wondering when we would hear a report of the trip that Ajamu Baraka and many others made to Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers World has the article U.S. anti-war movement leaders report from embattled Venezuela. Curcio discussed the U.S. role in creating the \u201chumanitarian crisis\u201d in Venezuela. These include shortages of basic necessities: toilet paper, corn, milk, coffee and vital medicines. To counter these shortages, the Bolivarian government established a distribution network to serve 6 million families [&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-26803","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\/26803","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=26803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26804,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26803\/revisions\/26804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}