{"id":696,"date":"2005-04-06T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=696"},"modified":"2005-04-06T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T17:31:01","slug":"point-counterpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/04\/06\/point-counterpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Point — Counterpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>POINT:
\nCOUNTERPOINT:
\nWell, the counterpoint would make sense if National Review Magazine offered up its covers in some form online, which shows a picture of Chavez and Castro and the infamous (and incredibly wacky) words “Axis of Evil”.<\/p>\n

The emerging axis of subversion forming between Cuba and Venezuela must be confronted before it can undermine democracy in Colombia, Nicaragua, Bolivia, or another vulnerable neighbour.<\/i><\/p>\n

The Nation article isn’t quite haliographical in nature… taking time to suggest that Chavez’s programs can cynically be viewed as pure political machine building, and showing a sympathetic portrait of his opposition. It’s fair to say that the National Review article doesn’t deviate any from a storyline of unmitigated evil and power-lust.<\/p>\n

I don’t have a whole lot to say on the matter… (1- Where do you stand on Venezuela politics? 2– Why do you even have an opinion?) It’s curious to note that Chavez attempted to take control of Venezuela through a coup in the early 1990s. He then apologized and took complete responsibility for it. He was elected president a number of years later. There’s a bit of Jerry Springer in that story, ie: after his sex scandal where he purchased hookers off of tax-payers’ money, Springer simply apologized for it and was promptly re-elected mayor of Cincinnatti.<\/p>\n

The US backed a coup against Chavez — which failed, and bolstered his popularity and has provided Chavez with a grand whipping boy. I’ve always thought attempt #2 was just around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POINT: COUNTERPOINT: Well, the counterpoint would make sense if National Review Magazine offered up its covers in some form online, which shows a picture of Chavez and Castro and the infamous (and incredibly wacky) words “Axis of Evil”. The emerging axis of subversion forming between Cuba and Venezuela must be confronted before it can undermine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}