{"id":22286,"date":"2011-02-15T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22286"},"modified":"2011-02-15T14:47:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:47:56","slug":"argentina-seizes-us-military-cargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22286","title":{"rendered":"Argentina seizes US military cargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we go down to Argentina to train President Christina Fernandez&#8217; police for hostage rescue. Sounds like a nice thing to do, right? Well, the Argentinians turn around and seize the cargo of the C-17 bringing the mission assets back to the US. (<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703584804576144450144733380.html?KEYWORDS=argentina\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> link)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Relations between Argentina and the U.S. have deteriorated rapidly since U.S. President Barack Obama said in January that he would visit El Salvador, Brazil and Chile next month, skipping Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Argentine officials reportedly considered Mr. Obama&#8217;s decision an affront, especially after Argentine President Cristina Fernandez in December blocked a bid by some South American nations to formally condemn U.S. policy amid the WikiLeaks diplomatic cables scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The leaked cables contained unflattering comments about several Latin American leaders, including Ms. Fernandez. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More of that smart diplomacy we&#8217;ve been hearing about, I suppose. They all hated us under Bush, but at least they didn&#8217;t do some stupid shit like this. <\/p>\n<p>Recently widowed Fernandez&#8217; (formerly Kirchner) was financed during her political campaign by Venezuela&#8217;s Hugo Chavez in the famous &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=983\">maleta-gate<\/a>&#8221; scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we go down to Argentina to train President Christina Fernandez&#8217; police for hostage rescue. Sounds &hellip; <a title=\"Argentina seizes US military cargo\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22286\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Argentina seizes US military cargo<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy","category-hugo-chavez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}