{"id":5357,"date":"2009-09-08T06:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T11:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2009-09-08T06:48:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T11:48:28","slug":"a-time-for-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"A Time For Turning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade or so, socialism has been advancing in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps Hugo Chavez and his statist ilk have gone too far; Latin Americans are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090904\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/lt_anti_chavez_protests\">pushing back<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of opponents of <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252108393_0\" style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand\">Hugo Chavez<\/span> marched against the Venezuelan president across <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252108393_1\">Latin America<\/span> on Friday, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling.<\/p>\n<p>The protests, coordinated through <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252108393_2\">Twitter<\/span> and <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252108393_3\">Facebook<\/span>, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252108393_4\" style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; cursor: hand\">Venezuela<\/span> and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in other Latin American capitals, as well as <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252108393_5\">New York<\/span> and <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252108393_6\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand\">Madrid<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Honduras march was led by Roberto Micheletti, who became president when Chavez ally <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1252108393_7\" style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; cursor: hand\">Manuel Zelaya<\/span> was ousted in a June coup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any politician who tries to stay in power by hitching up with a dictator like Hugo Chavez, he won&#8217;t achieve it,&#8221; Micheletti said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll stop him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From their lips to the American voters&#8217; ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past decade or so, socialism has been advancing in Latin America. But perhaps Hugo Chavez and his statist ilk have gone too far; Latin Americans are pushing back: Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America on Friday, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}