{"id":1509,"date":"2009-10-03T13:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T20:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2009-10-03T13:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T20:33:56","slug":"the-new-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/10\/03\/the-new-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Americas."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why the U.S. is and is not at war in Latin America:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat has happened in Rio applies, in varying degrees, throughout Latin America\u2013most notably in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Colombia. Two decades after the collapse of Communism, the region&#8217;s Marxist guerrillas have disappeared, only to be replaced by violent drug mafias.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what Mexico has come to represent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I asked [the new chief of Rio&#8217;s civil police] if the security situation in Rio was calamitous. &#8220;Calamitous?&#8221; he said. &#8220;No. If it was, there would be no way to turn it back\u2026This isn&#8217;t Baghdad yet, or Mexico.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/10\/05\/091005fa_fact_anderson\">Jon Lee Anderson&#8217;s report<\/a> on Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the U.S. is and is not at war in Latin America: What has happened in Rio applies, in varying degrees, throughout Latin America\u2013most notably in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Colombia. Two decades after the collapse of Communism, the region&#8217;s Marxist guerrillas have disappeared, only to be replaced by violent drug mafias. And what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}