{"id":7133,"date":"2013-03-07T21:31:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2013-03-08T04:05:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T08:05:52","slug":"how-chavez-invested-venezuelas-oil-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7133","title":{"rendered":"What kind of monster has priorities like this? Placing healthcare, education and nutrition before skyscrapers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hugo Chavez at The Fifth Summit of the Americas 2009 held in Trinidad and Tobago\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/adL1704093707.jpg\" title=\"Image Hugo Chavez at The Fifth Summit of the Americas 2009 held in Trinidad and Tobago\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is the actual view of Pamela Sampson, writer for the Associated Press:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=173521347\">Little Reaction In Oil Market To Chavez Death<\/a> <small>(March 05, 2013)<\/small><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=173521347\">www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=173521347<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><big>Chavez invested Venezuela&#8217;s oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. But those gains were meager compared with the spectacular construction projects that oil riches spurred in glittering Middle Eastern cities, including the world&#8217;s tallest building in Dubai and plans for branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi.<\/big><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=173521347\">Full Article&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<big><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers\/\">AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers<\/a><\/b><\/big><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers\/\">www.fair.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money&#8230;<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><big>That&#8217;s right: Chavez squandered his nation&#8217;s oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world&#8217;s tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that?<\/big><\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/ap-chavez-wasted-his-money-on-healthcare-when-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers\/\">Full Article&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is the actual view of Pamela Sampson, writer for the Associated Press: Little Reaction In Oil Market To Chavez Death (March 05, 2013) www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=173521347 Chavez invested Venezuela&#8217;s oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. But those gains were meager compared with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What kind of monster has priorities like this? Placing healthcare, education and nutrition before skyscrapers!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,117,178,320,109],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-7133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-international","category-latin-america","category-media","category-passed-on","category-venezuela","tag-hugo-chavez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7160,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions\/7160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}