{"id":112197,"date":"2014-04-02T21:05:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2014-04-02T21:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:05:42","slug":"chavez-maduro-and-venezuela-the-story-they-dont-want-you-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/chavez-maduro-and-venezuela-the-story-they-dont-want-you-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavez, Maduro and Venezuela  the story they don\u2019t want you to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Greg Palast<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan president Nichol\u00c3\u00a1s Maduro wrote on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/02\/opinion\/venezuela-a-call-for-peace.html?action=click&amp;module=Search&amp;region=searchResults%230&amp;version=&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DSectionFront%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3Dopinion%26t%3Dqry504%23%2Fmaduro%2F24hours%2F&amp;_r=4\" >Op Ed published in the New York Times<\/a> yesterday calling for peace.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who knows president Nichol\u00c3\u00a1s Maduro, Hugo Chavez&#8217; successor, (and Maduro&#8217;s opponents), I can say that I\u2019ve never met a head of state (and I\u2019ve met many) who absolutely gives a real shit about the average working person of his nation.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela is Occupy Wall Street on its head: the 1% are out in the street, violently hoping to overthrow the government elected by working people. Are the Kochs involved?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maduro_and_Palast1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9440 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"Maduro_and_Palast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Maduro_and_Palast1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Why not read my reports on Venezuela?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u2014\u008f <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/did-chavez-pick-steal-the-election-in-venezuela\/\" >Did Chavez\u2019 Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u2014\u008f <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/hugo-chavez-vs-the-network\/\" >Hugo Chavez vs &#8220;The Network\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u2014\u008f <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/the-koch-brothers-hugo-chavez-and-the-xl-pipeline\/\" >The Koch Brothers, Hugo Chavez and the XL Pipeline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u2014\u008f <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/big-oil-big-ketchup-and-the-assassination-of-hugo-chavez\/\" >Big Oil, Big Ketchup and The Assassination of Hugo Chavez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And once again, to shed light through the US media bullshit on Venezuela, my not-for-profit foundation is offering my film, &#8220;The Assassination of Hugo Chavez&#8221; as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/chavezdownload\/\" >FREE Download<\/a>. \u00a0<span id=\"more-9439\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?&#038;wp=3.3.2&amp;publisher=d00b9116-c29b-4161-bdf1-956730365e4f&amp;title=%3Cb%3EChavez%2C+Maduro+and+Venezuela+%3Cbr+%2F%3E+the+story+they+don%E2%80%99t+want+you+to+read%3C%2Fb%3E&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gregpalast.com%2Fchavez-maduro-and-venezuela-the-story-theydont-want-you-to-read%2F\">ShareThis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Palast Venezuelan president Nichol&aacute;s Maduro wrote on Op Ed published in the New York Times yesterday calling for peace. As someone who knows president Nichol&aacute;s Maduro, Hugo Chavez&#8217; successor, (and Maduro&#8217;s opponents), I can say that I&rsquo;ve never met a head of state (and I&rsquo;ve met many) who absolutely gives a real shit [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}