{"id":67238,"date":"2016-08-02T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67238"},"modified":"2016-08-02T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:03:39","slug":"67238","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67238","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAll animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn wrote the other day about <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67193\"><em>Venezuela\u2019s new forced labor policies<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 That forced labor is deemed \u201cnecessary\u201d because the Venezuelan economy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">has been mismanaged into the ground by the Bolivarians<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is having severe difficulties. \u00a0 Basic foodstuffs and commodities like toilet paper are in short supply or are unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Well, yesterday we learned how the Venezuelan \u201cNomenklatura\u201d are getting by.\u00a0 Turns out they\u2019re suffering, too.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re being forced to wear $12,000+ wristwatches.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and don\u2019t forget frequent luxury travel.\u00a0 Venezuelan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Commissar<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0President Maduro has traveled \u2013 with a large entourage, of course \u2013 to 32 different countries, taking 132 days, since taking power.\u00a0 That translates to about 11% of his time in office.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Latino <em><a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/news\/2016\/08\/01\/venezuela-top-officials-sport-luxury-watches-while-rest-country-starves\/\">has a good story giving more details<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 It\u2019s worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Some animals apparently are indeed more equal than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn wrote the other day about Venezuela\u2019s new forced labor policies.\u00a0 That forced labor is deemed \u201cnecessary\u201d because the Venezuelan economy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 has been mismanaged into the ground by the Bolivarians\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is having severe difficulties. \u00a0 Basic foodstuffs and commodities like toilet paper are in short supply or are unavailable. Well, yesterday we learned how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-hugo-chavez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4ozh1-67238","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}