{"id":316362,"date":"2010-02-13T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/desperate-chavez-awards-oil-rights-to-chevron-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-13T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:53:12","slug":"desperate-chavez-awards-oil-rights-to-chevron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/316362","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Chavez Awards Oil Rights To Chevron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b5530f800000000009cc696\/chavez.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Chavez\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Greek socialists are learning the tough lesson that it&#8217;s really, really hard maintain their political ideology in the face of an intransigent bond market.<\/p>\n<p>Political leaders of all stripes realize fast that ideology is no match for economic reality.<\/p>\n<p>And so it is, too, in Venezuela that Hugo Chavez is backpedaling furiously on his anti-Western status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilandgaseurasia.com\/news\/p\/0\/news\/6627\/\">As Oil &amp; Gas Eurasia notes<\/a>, this week Chevron was awarded concessions in the famously oil rich Orinoco Belt.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez has been quietly going in this direction for awhile, and though we&#8217;re sure oil firms are eager to get back into Venezuela, they&#8217;re no doubt aware that the situation there could turn on a dime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/desperate-chavez-awards-oil-rights-to-chevron-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chavez-blames-venezuelas-inability-to-meet-basic-human-needs-on-el-nino-2010-2\">Chavez Blames Venezuela&#8217;s Inability To Meet Basic Human Needs On El Nino And Global Warming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chavez-backtracking-madly-as-venezuela-degenerates-to-failed-petro-state-status-2010-1\">Chavez Furiously Backtracking As Venezuela Petro-Economy Deteriorates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dick-bove-goes-glenn-beck-compares-obama-to-hugo-chavez-and-warns-of-a-huge-crash-2010-1\">Dick Bove Goes Glenn Beck: Compares Obama To Hugo Chavez And Warns Of A Huge Crash<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/yKovFEp52co\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek socialists are learning the tough lesson that it&#8217;s really, really hard maintain their political ideology in the face of an intransigent bond market. Political leaders of all stripes realize fast that ideology is no match for economic reality. And so it is, too, in Venezuela that Hugo Chavez is backpedaling furiously on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}