{"id":190,"date":"2012-01-07T05:07:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:07:54","slug":"news-from-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/news-from-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"News from Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: Left;\">Hi Marty\u2026\u2026.. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0November 29, 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: Left;\">Still here in Venezuela \u2014 things are really falling apart, and our country is on the verge of becoming\u00a0a failed state. Living on borrowed money (literally) despite being an oil exporter. Chavez is sick and\u00a0radicalizing his \u201crevolution,\u201d etc., and my family split as to some who want to leave the country and some\u00a0who wish to stick it out (I am one of them).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: Left;\">I spent two weeks in Delaware this fall and had a fantastic time with students and faculty. I wrote a note\u00a0that I hope will be published in the OWU magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: Left;\">While in Delaware, I spoke to other alumns and trustees and found out that the Phi Gams are coming\u00a0back to OWU after having a similar experience to our BTP exit from OWU\u2026and wondered why we can\u2019t start the long road\u00a0back\u2026? I will be glad to help on two fronts, the \u201cdiplomacy and protocol\u201d part, and also with a financial support\u2026\u00a0More later, and thanks again for your note\u2026and to Tom for keeping us together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: Left;\">Saludos, -Kai- ADV Andres Duarte<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: Left;\">Editors note: Andres Duarte, \u201964, is a long standing member of the OWU Board of Trustees and friend of Theta Chapter\u00a0of Beta Theta Pi. For more on Andres recent trip to OWU, see the current Winter 2011 OWU Magazine, which on page 48 is his\u00a0summary visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Andres-Duarte.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9724\" alt=\"Andres Duarte\" src=\"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Andres-Duarte.jpg\" width=\"94\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAndres Duarte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Marty\u2026\u2026.. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0November 29, 2011 Still here in Venezuela \u2014 things are really falling apart, and our country is on the verge of becoming\u00a0a failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-news","category-theta-data","tag-january-2012-theta-data","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}