{"id":200,"date":"2009-01-16T05:06:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2009-01-16T05:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T13:06:01","slug":"chavez-attempting-to-solidify-his-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/16\/chavez-attempting-to-solidify-his-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavez attempting to solidify his rule?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Chavez is worried enough by dropping oil prices that he is coming in from the cold, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/15\/world\/americas\/15venez.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=all\">courting Western oil companies<\/a> again.\u00c2\u00a0 Just days after the National Assembly approved his constitutional reform which would allow him to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/7829920.stm\">run for reelection<\/a> an unlimited number of times (which still needs to be ratified by referendum), he has been whispering sweet nothings into the ears of Chevron, Total France and Royal\/Dutch Shell.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the oil companies will bite is another question.\u00c2\u00a0 That Chavez is coming in during a historic drop in prices suggests that, should things improve, he might just screw them over once again.\u00c2\u00a0 But then again, maybe not.\u00c2\u00a0 Chavez seems more interested in staying in power, and he would hardly be the first leader to sacrafice principles on the altar of political expediency now, would he?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like Chavez is worried enough by dropping oil prices that he is coming in from the cold, and courting Western oil companies again.\u00c2\u00a0 Just days after the National Assembly approved his constitutional reform which would allow him to run for reelection an unlimited number of times (which still needs to be ratified by referendum), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/16\/chavez-attempting-to-solidify-his-rule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chavez attempting to solidify his rule?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,61,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rumour","category-the-dismal-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}