{"id":307,"date":"2006-05-01T23:54:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T21:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=307"},"modified":"2006-05-01T23:54:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T21:54:42","slug":"what-is-it-about-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"What is it about the Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Foreign Policy is mainly focused on the Middle East.  So it\u00b4s Spain\u00b4s.  Both countries have strong historical and economics ties to Latin America. Both should focus on the region.  None of them do.  Latin America, 560 million people, GDP of $2.3 trillion dollars. Israel and the Palestinian Territories, 10 million people, GDP of $140bn.  No comparison.  Oil reserves?  Venezuela\u00b4s are almost as high as those of Iraq.   Wonder how Hugo Chavez is doing so well promoting his foreign policy around Latin America?  Look at where the foreign ministers of USA and Spain spend most of their time.  America and in a smaller scale Spain have created a power vaccum in the region and now Chavez clones are sprouting in the region with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/bolivia_gas;_ylt=AnWM0qYM6RouZBEV7CnAE9qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--\">unexpected results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=307\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Foreign Policy is mainly focused on the Middle East. So it\u00b4s Spain\u00b4s. Both countries have strong historical and economics ties to Latin America. Both should focus on the region. None of them do. Latin America, 560 million people, GDP of $2.3 trillion dollars. Israel and the Palestinian Territories, 10 million people, GDP of $140bn. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}