{"id":43187,"date":"2019-01-26T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43187"},"modified":"2019-01-26T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:10:00","slug":"the-exceptional-nation-asserts-its-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43187","title":{"rendered":"The Exceptional Nation Asserts Its Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-exceptional-nation-asserts-its-exceptionalism\/5666548\">The Exceptional Nation Asserts Its Exceptionalism<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/maduro-1-400x189.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Washington has chosen a president for Venezuela.&nbsp; I wonder if Trump saw the black humor in doing to Maduro what the Democrats and presstitutes are doing to him.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few Latin American governments have ever had a government that represents the majority indigenous people or a president who was not of Spanish descent.&nbsp; Chavez in Venezuela perhaps was the longest lasting indigenous leader.&nbsp; His successor Maduro is also indigenous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indigenous Latin American leaders are unacceptable to Washington, because they tend to be reformers who represent their country\u2019s people instead of American business and financial interests.&nbsp; Consequently, when a Latin electorate elects a leader who will put them first, Washington overthrows the leader.&nbsp; This is the history of US\/Latin American relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 21st century alone Washington has overthrown the elected presidents of Honduras, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela and overturned the independence of Ecuador that had provided asylum protection for<strong>&nbsp;Julian Assange.<\/strong>&nbsp; Washington\u2019s coup with the Spanish elite against Chavez in Venezuela initially succeeded.&nbsp; Chavez was in captivity, but before he could be murdered the Venezuelan people and military forced his release. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chavez, either because he lacked the power to move against the traitorous Spanish elite or because he chose to display magnanimity, did not hold those responsible who participated in the coup against his life and Venezuelan sovereignty.\u00a0 Washington\u2019s agents, the Spanish elite,\u00a0 were not arrested and retained their control over the media and the economy. Venezuela has substantial oil revenues, but they do not reach the government\u2019s budget or protect the value of the currency.\u00a0 I do not know who controls the Venezuelan oil, but it appears the revenues are being stolen.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Exceptional Nation Asserts Its Exceptionalism Washington has chosen a president for Venezuela.&nbsp; I wonder if Trump saw the black humor in doing to Maduro what the Democrats and presstitutes are doing to him. Few Latin American governments have ever had a government that represents the majority indigenous people or a president who was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2384,6110,2422,2951,827,851,865],"class_list":["post-43187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-elite","tag-global-research","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-paul-craig-roberts","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43188,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43187\/revisions\/43188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}