{"id":508,"date":"2007-12-03T08:36:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2007-12-03T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T12:36:03","slug":"victory-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Victory for Democracy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/no-wins-in-venezuela.html\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela has rejected<\/a> Chavez&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/constitutional-reform-venezuela.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">proposed constitutional reforms<\/a> that would have made the country a socialist state, and Chavez a dictator for life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eluniversal.com\/eng_index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">El Universal<\/a> is a Caracas newspaper with an English-language mirror, and they have good photo coverage of yesterday&#8217;s events.&nbsp; I tried valiantly to read as many different sources as I could yesterday, including many that are written only in Spanish, but I&#8217;m not as fluent as I once was and my translation was slow and uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela faces more struggles, but buoyed by this victory, they can continue working toward what they want to be.&nbsp; I fully realize that most of my readers here in the US think in terms of oil and global politics, but remember if you can that I&#8217;m thinking of it in terms of Anneliese Diaz and her family, with whom I lived for a summer.&nbsp; No, they were not among the poor and disenfranchised, by any means, but neither did they survive by living off the backs of the poor.&nbsp; Mr. Diaz was an engineer (not in the petroleum industry); the family lived a similar existence to my own family here in Oak Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lost touch with them over the years, but I worry about them.&nbsp; Pollyanna-ish, perhaps&#8230; but yes, I&#8217;ve watched the goings on in Venezuela in terms of real people, not pawns in a global power play.&nbsp; How might the world be different if we all viewed it that way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela has rejected Chavez&#8217; proposed constitutional reforms that would have made the country a socialist state, and Chavez a dictator for life. El Universal is a Caracas newspaper with an English-language mirror, and they have good photo coverage of yesterday&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}