{"id":1145,"date":"2007-03-20T16:42:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2009-09-09T00:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:13:31","slug":"1141-of-erriely-familiar-rhetoric-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"[1141] Of eeriely familiar rhetoric in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Venezuela, Hugo Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez the socialist, while going on <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1110\">a fool&#8217;s errand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez champions these ideas, which will take effect in January, as ways to combat inflation, which in recent weeks crept up to 20 percent, the highest in Latin America. Officials blame \u201dhoarders\u201d\u009d for shortages of basic goods and price increases for food on the black market. Mr. Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez says the renaming and redenominating the currency will instill confidence in it. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/18\/world\/americas\/18venezuela.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Venezuela to Give Currency New Name and Numbers<\/em><\/a>, NYT,  March 18 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=765\">Isn&#8217;t that familiar<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Venezuela, Hugo Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez the socialist, while going on a fool&#8217;s errand: Mr. Ch\u00c3\u00a1vez champions these ideas, which will take effect in January, as ways to combat inflation, which in recent weeks crept up to 20 percent, the highest in Latin America. Officials blame \u201dhoarders\u201d\u009d for shortages of basic goods and price increases for food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[896,74],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5129,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/5129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}