{"id":95,"date":"2008-05-29T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peter.vittrup.dk\/?p=95"},"modified":"2023-02-25T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:11:53","slug":"hugo-chavez-frustrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/29\/hugo-chavez-frustrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Ch\u00e1vez frustrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>R\u00edo Caura, day 5<\/strong> \u2013 the beach<\/p>\n<p>We have finally arrived at the vast sandbanks of destination El Play\u00f3n where this part of our river journey ends. Small wooden houses are spread on the beach, and with the evening sun sending a paradise glow down upon everything, it is hard not to feel amazed.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image\" title=\"El Play\u00f3n\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21924312@N08\/2521111509\/\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2008\/2521111509_69b9318072_t.jpg\" alt=\"El Play\u00f3n\" \/><\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a class=\"flickr-image\" title=\"Hammock view #3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21924312@N08\/2521930632\/\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2116\/2521930632_218ecff412_t.jpg\" alt=\"Hammock view #3\" \/><\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a class=\"flickr-image\" title=\"El Play\u00f3n boat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21924312@N08\/2521114021\/\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2349\/2521114021_ff476fd2bd_t.jpg\" alt=\"El Play\u00f3n boat\" \/><\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3025\/2521111321_67545b4d0e_t.jpg\" alt=\"El Play\u00f3n motor\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After dinner Caracas man Francisco pops an expensive French red wine and offers me a glass in the dark overlooking the water. His wife is asleep in a hammock nearby. \u201cMmmm, this is really camping\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dictator socialism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Francisco expresses his pride in the fact, that educated European students like me wants to come to Venezuela regardless of the political situation. He is openly frustrated by the socialist leadership of President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8211;\u00a0It has been 10 years now and it\u2019s not getting any better. Ch\u00e1vez wants to do to Venezuela what Fidel Casto did to Cuba, and all though we should be a democracy here, that man is running the country like a dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Belonging to wealthy class of Venezuelans, Francisco admits that Ch\u00e1ves missions have helped some poor people, but he doesn\u2019t think he is building any foundation for the future, though he has had every opportunity with all the oil money floating in the country. And this frustrates him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8211;\u00a0I am a socialist too, you know. Just not this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00edo Caura, day 5 \u2013 the beach We have finally arrived at the vast sandbanks of destination El Play\u00f3n where this part of our river journey ends. Small wooden houses are spread on the beach, and with the evening sun sending a paradise glow down upon everything, it is hard not to feel amazed. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/2008\/05\/29\/hugo-chavez-frustrations\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hugo Ch\u00e1vez frustrations<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[74,113,101],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-venezuela","tag-beach","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journey.petervittrup.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}