{"id":1838,"date":"2014-04-05T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2014-04-05T11:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:05:59","slug":"what-is-going-on-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/what-is-going-on-in-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Going on in Venezuela?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Challenge of mainstream media views of protests in Venezuela<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talk given at Forum on Venezuela in Seattle, Washington on April 5, 2014<\/p>\n<p>There are two different stories about Venezuela\u2014one view is that the protesters there are part of a world- wide protest upsurge such as what has been happening in Turkey, Brazil, Chile, Ukraine and Egypt in 2011, against an increasingly repressive and poorly functioning economic system. In this narrative, the protesters in Venezuela want more democracy, less corruption and an economy where goods are available&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read\u00a0full talk:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/files\/2016\/05\/VenezuelatalkseattleApril2014.pdf\" rel=\"\">What is Going on in Venezuela?<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video of April 5th Forum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iDHlfrUQNoA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenge of mainstream media views of protests in Venezuela Talk given at Forum on Venezuela in Seattle, Washington on April 5, 2014 There are two different stories about Venezuela\u2014one view is that the protesters there are part of a world- wide protest upsurge such as what has been happening in Turkey, Brazil, Chile, Ukraine and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/what-is-going-on-in-venezuela\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is Going on in Venezuela?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}