{"id":193413,"date":"2008-12-17T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/17\/another-indication-of-just-how-long-the-damage-will-last\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T21:43:00","slug":"another-indication-of-just-how-long-the-damage-will-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/17\/another-indication-of-just-how-long-the-damage-will-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Indication of Just How Long the Damage Will Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because this was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=azzqp51ik6lw&amp;refer=exclusive\">unthinkable just 5 or 6 years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering in Brazil tomorrow will mark a historic occasion: a region-wide summit that excludes the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two centuries after President James Monroe declared Latin America a U.S. sphere of influence, the region is breaking away. From socialist-leaning Venezuela to market-friendly Brazil, governments are expanding military, economic and diplomatic ties with potential U.S. adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and in addition to China and Russia, guess who&#8217;s coming to dinner?<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The two-day gathering, called by Brazil at a beach resort in Bahia state, is also a diplomatic triumph for Cuban President Raul Castro, making his first trip abroad since taking over from his brother Fidel two years ago. The communist island was suspended from the hemisphere-wide Organization of American States in 1962 over its ties with the former Soviet Union. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We will be suffering major ill effect is Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> well after I am dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because this was unthinkable just 5 or 6 years ago: Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering in Brazil tomorrow will mark a historic occasion: a region-wide summit that excludes the United States. Almost two centuries after President James Monroe declared Latin America a U.S. sphere of influence, the region is breaking away. From socialist-leaning Venezuela &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,964,1033],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-foreign-relations","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193413"}],"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=193413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}