{"id":5645,"date":"2013-01-08T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2013-01-08T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T16:45:00","slug":"hugo-chavez-makes-a-political-statement-about-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5645","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Chavez Makes a Political Statement About Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And will likely <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/ibd-editorials\/010713-639640-castrocare-in-cuba-responsible-for-chavez-demise.htm\">pay with his life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez is dying of cancer in Havana, in a live demonstration of Cuba&#8217;s vaunted socialized medical care. He went there instead of Brazil because he wanted to make a political statement. What irony.<\/p>\n<p>As party cronies hover at his bedside, Cuban officials bark orders to the government in Caracas, and red-shirted Chavistas hold vigils, all signs are pointing to an imminent exit for the Venezuelan leader who controls a huge part of the world&#8217;s oil.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s going out exactly as he wouldn&#8217;t have liked \u2014 helpless and at the mercy of doctors, a far cry from the blaze of heroic socialist glory he might have preferred.<\/p>\n<p>Most galling for him: It didn&#8217;t have to happen this way.<\/p>\n<p>His expected demise will be entirely due to his gullibility to leftist propaganda and bad choices that came of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, this is the <a href=\"http:\/\/sickothemovie.com\/labels\/cuba.html\">Michael-Moore-acclaimed<\/a> Cuban health care system covered in his movie &quot;Sicko&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And will likely pay with his life. Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez is dying of cancer in Havana, in a live demonstration of Cuba&#8217;s vaunted socialized medical care. He went there instead of Brazil because he wanted to make a political statement. What irony. As party cronies hover at his bedside, Cuban officials bark orders to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,275,21,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-government","category-healthcare","category-liberal","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}