{"id":101463,"date":"2017-11-13T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=101463"},"modified":"2017-11-20T19:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T19:14:50","slug":"amazonlog-a-military-drill-with-vast-amazonian-aspirations-us-empire-of-bases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/11\/amazonlog-a-military-drill-with-vast-amazonian-aspirations-us-empire-of-bases\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAmazonLog\u201d \u2014 A Military Drill with Vast Amazonian Aspirations: US Empire of Bases"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>While placing pressure on Venezuela could well be part of the agenda behind the public face of this week\u2019s combined military drill, the move is likely reflective of the larger goal of establishing a permanent U.S. military presence in the Amazon.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_101464\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101464\" class=\"wp-image-101464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. guided-missile destroyer Nitze, third from left, docks with other warships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during a joint military exercise, April 27, 2011. (AP\/Victor R. Caivano)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>6 Nov 2017 <\/em><strong>\u2013<\/strong> Back in May, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/tensions-rise-as-us-announces-military-drills-near-embattled-venezuela\/227596\/\" >MintPress News reported<\/a> on the announcement of a U.S. military drill in South America titled \u201cOperation: America United,\u201d due to take place later this year. Set to begin on Monday, the drill, now <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amazonlog.net\/en\/exercico-logistico-multinacional.html\" >also referred to<\/a> by the name \u201cAmazonLog,\u201d will be led by the U.S. military and involve the militaries of Brazil, Peru and Colombia \u2014 as well as the installation of a temporary military base in the region, near the triple border shared by the three participating countries, in the Brazilian city of Tabatinga.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FuerzaAereaCol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@FuerzaAereaCol<\/a> se encuentra lista para participar en ejercicio multinacional <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmazonLog?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >#AmazonLog<\/a> \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf4 \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddea<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nUke1ooMgR\" >https:\/\/t.co\/nUke1ooMgR<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZpyvH94Il1\" >pic.twitter.com\/ZpyvH94Il1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fuerza Aeroespacial Colombiana (@FuerzaAereaCol) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FuerzaAereaCol\/status\/926813996207849473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >November 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Initially touted by the Brazilian military as an opportunity to \u201cdevelop greater knowledge, share experiences and develop mutual trust,\u201d it has since emerged that major aspects of the program <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/amazonlog.net\/en\/simposio.html\" >will focus on<\/a> managing refugees displaced by drug trafficking and terrorism, providing humanitarian aid, peace operations, and actions against drug trafficking. For those who have been following events in Venezuela, the timing of the exercise \u2013 as Venezuela<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-11-02\/default-time-venezuela-announces-it-will-restructure-all-debt-after-tomorrows-final-\" > approaches default<\/a> \u2013 combined with the drill\u2019s focuses suggest that the Venezuelan government of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro could be the target of this multinational military exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, recent U.S. legislation cites U.S. concerns for uncontrolled migration and the need for humanitarian aid were the current government of Venezuela to collapse. Congress <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/omnibus-defense-bill-puts-venezuela-in-us-military-cross-hairs\/233800\/\" >recently required<\/a> the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a contingency plan detailing what roles and assets it would employ to address such an issue in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the U.S. government <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-38964575\" >has repeatedly accused<\/a> Venezuelan government officials of drug trafficking when issuing sanctions against them, a charge levied against them without evidence. Such charges <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/venezuela-drops-petrodollar-us-sanctions-drug-trafficking\/232056\/\" >have also coincided<\/a> with decisions taken by the Venezuelan government that adversely affect U.S. economic and business interests \u2014 including the Venezuelan government\u2019s recent decision to stop selling its oil in U.S. dollars and begin selling it in the Chinese yuan.The fact that U.S. President Donald Trump <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Brazil-Announces-US-Backed-Military-Drills-at-South-America-Triple-Border-Zone-20170507-0017.html\" >has met<\/a> with the presidents of the participating South American countries to discuss the U.S.\u2019 \u201cinterest\u201d in Venezuela also does not bode well for the Bolivarian republic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An obvious target and an ultimate ambition<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101465\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101465\" class=\"wp-image-101465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy2-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy2-768x454.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighter jets sit on the deck of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, at the Guanabara bay in Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 26, 2010. (AP\/Silvia Izquierdo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yet, while Venezuelan regime change could well be part of the agenda hidden behind the public face of \u201cAmerica United\u201d\/\u201dAmazonLog,\u201d there is significant evidence that the drill is also just part of the larger goal of establishing a permanent U.S. military presence in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Brazilian military <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/larepublica.pe\/impresa\/politica\/873411-peru-participara-en-operacion-america-unida\" >has previously denied<\/a> rumors that a permanent military force in the region will follow in the wake of the drill, the Brazilian government \u2013 led by its unelected and extremely unpopular president, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/220783-2\/220783\/\" >Michel Temer<\/a> \u2013 has done much to help advance Washington\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Brazil-Invites-US-to-Use-Amazon-Military-Base-20170124-0020.html\" >long-standing dream<\/a> of a permanent military base in the Amazon. Consider, for example, Temer\u2019s \u201cinvitation\u201d to allow the U.S. to use Brazil\u2019s Alcantara Launch Center (CLA) for space and rocket launches earlier this year, as part of bilateral negotiations known as the \u201cBrazil and United States Defense Industry Dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Internationally valued for being the only launch site in close proximity to the equator, the arrangement \u2013 if accepted by the Brazilian legislature \u2013 would prevent Brazilians from entering the base without U.S. approval and would prevent Brazilian government oversight of the site\u2019s use. Former Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brazzil.com\/p128may03.htm\" > rejected a similar proposal<\/a> in 2003, arguing that such a move would violate Brazil\u2019s sovereignty. Given that Temer, a<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/342933-temer-us-brazil-spying\/\" > former U.S. intelligence asset<\/a>, has already been pushing for a permanent U.S. military presence in the Amazon, Operation America United will likely serve to expand this already existing project.<\/p>\n<p>Temer\u2019s friendliness with the U.S. military builds on similar developments over the past decade. Brazil signed a Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with the U.S. in 2010, aimed at promoting cooperation in logistics support and the acquisition of armaments. At the time, Fernando Arbache, an anti-terrorism expert in Sao Paulo who teaches at Brazil\u2019s Naval Headquarters, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Americas\/2010\/0413\/Why-Brazil-signed-a-military-agreement-with-the-US\" >told the Christian Science Monitor<\/a> that \u201cwith this accord, Brazil is aligning itself strategically with the U.S., like the European nations have done with NATO.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101466\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy3.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101466\" class=\"wp-image-101466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy3.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy3-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Army Major General Clarence K.K. Chinn ( left, second from front to back), commander of USARSO, met with Brazilian service members in March, in Brazil. (Photo: Amazon Military Command)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Indeed, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coha.org\/expanding-alliances-in-the-21st-century-the-u-s-and-brazil-unite-to-address-overlapping-matters-of-national-security\/\" >the DCA heralded<\/a> Brazil\u2019s incorporation into a growing U.S.-Latin American alliance system, as opposed to its \u201coperating as a dissatisfied revisionist state on the outside,\u201d like Venezuela. Two years later, in 2012, former Brazilian President Dilma <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/04\/09\/fact-sheet-us-brazil-defense-cooperation\" >Rousseff established<\/a> the U.S.-Brazil Defense Cooperation Dialogue (DCD) with the Obama administration, then representing the closest military cooperation between the two countries in more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Brazil\u2019s recent courting of the U.S. military, Colombia \u2013 another participant in the upcoming drill \u2013 has an extremely close relationship with the U.S. government and its military ambitions in South America. In 2009, Colombia and the U.S. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/americas\/10\/30\/us.colombia.bases\/index.html\" >signed a military agreement<\/a> that authorized the U.S. military to occupy seven Colombian military bases and to use any part of Colombian national territory to conduct military operations.<\/p>\n<p>As journalist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pravdareport.com\/hotspots\/conflicts\/08-04-2010\/112941-washington_plans_new_bases_braz-0\/\" >Eva Golinger reported<\/a>, a U.S. Air Force document from the same year asserted that a U.S. presence in Colombia was essential for conducting future \u201cbroad spectrum\u201d military operations throughout the continent in order \u201ccombat the threat [\u2026] from anti-American governments\u201d and \u201cimprove its ability to perform a quick war\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. also shares a military relationship in Peru, as Peruvian soldiers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/191172\/us_military_police_train_peruvian_partners_strengthen_20_years_of_cooperation\" >have been trained<\/a> in the U.S. for decades and Peru also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Peruvians-Protest-US-Military-Presence-20150820-0008.html\" >recently hosted<\/a> thousands of U.S. troops. However, that relationship has been growing stronger in recent years as Peru <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coha.org\/u-s-military-presence-in-latin-america-increasing\/\" >has sought increased<\/a> military assistance from the U.S., allegedly to combat narco-trafficking and the resurgence of the Shining Path terrorist group.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101467\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peru-militares_crop1440079754877.jpg_1718483346-pentagon.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peru-militares_crop1440079754877.jpg_1718483346-pentagon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peru-militares_crop1440079754877.jpg_1718483346-pentagon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peru-militares_crop1440079754877.jpg_1718483346-pentagon-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2015 march protesting U.S. troop presence in Peru. (Rael Mora\/teleSUR)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furthermore, Peru\u2019s current president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, is a strong supporter of increasing his country\u2019s U.S. ties. Francesca Emanuele, a Peruvian sociologist and political analyst, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=16525\" >has suggested<\/a> that Kuczynski would seek a greater role for the U.S. military within Peru. \u201cHe\u2019s going to be allied with the US. He\u2019s going to be allied with the new governments like Macri, for example, and he is going to support this new allies of right-wing government against, in many ways or many aspects, against sovereignty in the region,\u201d Emanuele stated in an interview last year. Last year, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article195050.html\" >Kuczynski approved<\/a> the construction of a new U.S. military based in the country\u2019s Amazonas region that is being sold to the Peruvian public as a new response center for natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. eyes niobium, gold, oil, water<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_101468\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy4-Novo-Progresso-gold-mine-Brazil-Para.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101468\" class=\"wp-image-101468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy4-Novo-Progresso-gold-mine-Brazil-Para-1024x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy4-Novo-Progresso-gold-mine-Brazil-Para-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy4-Novo-Progresso-gold-mine-Brazil-Para-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy4-Novo-Progresso-gold-mine-Brazil-Para-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/pentagon-amazon-military-navy4-Novo-Progresso-gold-mine-Brazil-Para.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gold mine is seen in a national park forest near Novo Progresso in Brazil\u2019s northern state of Para.<br \/> (AP\/Andre Penner)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. has plenty of motivations for establishing itself in the Amazon that go far beyond any shorter term interest in Venezuelan regime change. For example, increasing ties between the U.S. and Brazilian militaries is crucial to U.S. strategic interest in South America as a whole. As Hector Luis Saint Pierre \u2013 coordinator of international security, defense and strategy at the Brazilian Association of International Relations \u2013 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/news\/Brazil-Announces-US-Backed-Military-Drills-at-South-America-Triple-Border-Zone-20170507-0017.html\" >told the BBC<\/a>: \u201cBrazil is a strategic partner for the doctrine of the military. If the United States has a good relationship with the Brazilian Navy, it is easier to spread its message among the military in the region.\u201d Indeed, Brazil\u2019s military is larger than the rest of the armed forces in all of South America <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theglobalamericans.org\/2017\/10\/strategic-importance-brazil\/\" >combined<\/a>, and its arms industry is of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/defense-update.com\/20130407_brazils-defense-industry-market-report-2012-2017.html\" >regional importance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, more important to the U.S. than the strategic value of the Brazilian military is the Brazilian territory itself, which accounts for roughly half of the territory, population and economic product of South America. Also of prime interest for the U.S. are the vast resources that Brazil\u2019s territory, particularly the Amazon, contains. As Argentine journalist Telma Luzzani noted in her book <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/territorios-vigilados\" >Territorios Vigilados<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Amazonas contains 95 percent of the [world\u2019s] reserves of niobium, which is essential for the steel of spacecraft and intercontinental missiles, and 96 percent of the reserves of titanium and tungsten, used in space and military aeronautics; besides being rich in petroleum, gas, uranium, gold and diamonds.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bancomundial.org\/es\/news\/feature\/2015\/03\/10\/brasil-colombia-peru-paises-mas-agua-tienen-en-el-mundo\" >Brazil holds<\/a> the largest freshwater reserves in the world, while Colombia and Peru hold the sixth and eighth largest, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela, of course, is the ultimate prize \u2013 with the world\u2019s largest, proven oil reserves and the world\u2019s second-largest gold reserves in addition to significant mineral wealth. Given the milieu in which Operation America United is set to take place, the U.S.-led push for Venezuelan regime change represents only a part of Washington\u2019s greater regional ambitions aimed at maintaining control over key resources. Analyst Mart\u00edn Pastor recently <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blackagendareport.com\/more-us-troops-latin-america-signs-invasion-foretold\" >summed it up<\/a>: \u201cBehind the U.S. military action there\u2019s always the goal of taking over resources to achieve their national goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>_____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whitney-Webb-e1495550379836.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-92728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Whitney-Webb-e1495550379836.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><em>Whitney Webb is a<\/em> MintPress <em>contributor who has written for several news organizations in both English and Spanish; her stories have been featured on<\/em> ZeroHedge, the Anti-Media, 21st Century Wire, <em>and<\/em> True Activist <em>among others &#8211; she currently resides in Southern Chile.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Republish our stories! <\/em>MintPress News<em> is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/operation-america-united-a-military-drill-with-vast-amazonian-aspirations\/234065\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 mintpressnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While placing pressure on Venezuela could well be part of the agenda behind the public face of this week\u2019s combined military drill, the move is likely reflective of the larger goal of establishing a permanent U.S. military presence in the Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,65,57,180,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exposures","category-anglo-america","category-militarism","category-brics","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}