{"id":26805,"date":"2019-03-14T19:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T23:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26805"},"modified":"2019-03-14T19:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T23:07:43","slug":"venezuela-mobilizes-against-imperialist-attacks-on-its-electrical-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/03\/14\/venezuela-mobilizes-against-imperialist-attacks-on-its-electrical-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela mobilizes against imperialist attacks on its electrical grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Workers World <\/em>has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.workers.org\/2019\/03\/11\/venezuela-mobilizes-against-imperialist-attacks-on-its-electrical-grid\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela mobilizes against imperialist attacks on its electrical grid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnother possibility is a dirty war, fought through rebel groups created and armed by the U.S. to apply enough pressure to collapse the Bolivarian social programs. The opposition already has a base of \u201cguarimberos,\u201d or violent street fighters, that could serve as a starting point.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, the main battlefield is the economy. Imperialism\u2019s plans to destabilize the country are based on \u201cmaking the economy scream.\u201d To defeat the new and desperate opposition attacks, it will be necessary to break the remaining power the oligarchy holds over the Venezuelan economy, while strengthening popular organization in the country.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, be skeptical of this article, but also be skeptical of what you hear from the imperialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers World has the article Venezuela mobilizes against imperialist attacks on its electrical grid. Another possibility is a dirty war, fought through rebel groups created and armed by the U.S. to apply enough pressure to collapse the Bolivarian social programs. The opposition already has a base of \u201cguarimberos,\u201d or violent street fighters, that could serve [&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-26805","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\/26805","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=26805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26806,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26805\/revisions\/26806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}