{"id":364690,"date":"2018-06-09T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T10:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/venezuelas-narrowing-options\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T10:24:33","slug":"venezuelas-narrowing-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/venezuelas-narrowing-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Narrowing Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_102780\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102780\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/283491680_9930294717_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/283491680_9930294717_z.jpg 500w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/283491680_9930294717_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Alejandro Alarcon | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publico.es\/internacional\/patria-o-muerte-frases-fidel.html\">\u201c\u00a1Patria o muerte!\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(fatherland or death) is the traditional slogan of Latin American revolutionaries. It is also the grim choice that the US government is imposing on the people of Venezuela, as the Washington consensus (e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/06\/05\/its-time-for-a-coup-in-venezuela-trump\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a>) screams \u201cit\u2019s time for a coup in Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington Rejects Electoral Transition <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The runner-up in the May 20 Venezuelan presidential elections was Henri Falc\u00f3n, who campaigned to replace the Venezuelan bolivar with the US dollar, institute a severe regime of International Monetary Fund austerity on the populace, and auction off the country\u2019s assets at fire-sale prices to foreign bidders.<\/p>\n<p>So what is there not to like about this neoliberal dream for the Trump administration? Answer: it does not go far enough. A far more radical final solution is being promoted by the Colossus of the North.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of embracing Falc\u00f3n as would be expected on account of his economic proclivities, Washington demanded that he not even run in the presidential election and went as far as threatening to impose personal sanctions on him and his family. The US lie that Venezuela is a dictatorship was exposed by Falc\u00f3n showing just the opposite by running.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, Maduro was affirmed with a landslide 68% of the vote compared to Falc\u00f3n\u2019s second place showing of 21%. But Falc\u00f3n faced the dual challenges of opposition from the left and boycott from the extreme right.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/08\/venezuelas-narrowing-options\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Alejandro Alarcon | CC BY 2.0 \u201c\u00a1Patria o muerte!\u201d\u00a0(fatherland or death) is the traditional slogan of Latin American revolutionaries. It is also the grim choice that the US government is imposing on the people of Venezuela, as the Washington consensus (e.g., Foreign Policy) screams \u201cit\u2019s time for a coup in Venezuela.\u201d Washington Rejects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-364690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}