{"id":178852,"date":"2018-08-04T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/04\/my-money-is-that-its-not-columbia-but-might-be-the-district-of-columbia\/"},"modified":"2018-08-04T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:28:00","slug":"my-money-is-that-its-not-columbia-but-might-be-the-district-of-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/04\/my-money-is-that-its-not-columbia-but-might-be-the-district-of-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"My Money Is That It&#8217;s Not Columbia, but Might Be the District of Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a speech in Caracas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/04\/nicolas-maduros-speech-cut-short-while-soldiers-scatter\">Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was the target of an apparent assassination attempt<\/a> involving explosive laden drones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Chaos has struck Venezuela following an apparent foiled assassination attempt against the country\u2019s embattled president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. <\/p>\n<p>Several drones armed with explosives were flown towards Maduro as he addressed a military parade in the capital Caracas on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>The drones did not reach Maduro, though it is not clear if they were shot down or exploded prematurely. The president survived unharmed while seven people were injured in the attack, the country\u2019s information minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro, speaking from the presidential palace two hours after the attack, announced that those behind the attempt on his life had been captured. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am alive and victorious,\u201d the socialist president said in a bellicose televised address, before blaming the attack on the government of neighbouring Colombia. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything points to the Venezuelan ultra-right in alliance with the Colombian ultra-right, and that the name of [Colombian president] Juan Manuel Santos is behind this attack.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if someone in the US state security apparatus had some advance knowledge of this going down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a speech in Caracas, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was the target of an apparent assassination attempt involving explosive laden drones: Chaos has struck Venezuela following an apparent foiled assassination attempt against the country\u2019s embattled president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Several drones armed with explosives were flown towards Maduro as he addressed a military parade in 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":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-178852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}