{"id":1222,"date":"2003-08-18T13:02:33","date_gmt":"2003-08-18T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/18\/leftist-leaders-in-loony-laughfest\/"},"modified":"2003-08-18T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2003-08-18T17:02:33","slug":"leftist-leaders-in-loony-laughfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/18\/leftist-leaders-in-loony-laughfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Leaders in Loony Laughfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a679'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"272\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/castro.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"194\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"6\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td width=\"245\">\n<p><font color=\"#990000\" size=\"+1\"><strong>A &quot;Chiste&quot; Among &quot;Compadres&quot;<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Cuban president Fidel Castro reportedly startled his Venezuelan counterpart,<br \/>\n      Hugo Chavez, with a practical joke when they met yesterday in Paraguay. <\/p>\n<p>He persuaded a Paraguayan MP to warn Chavez to watch out for an ambush<br \/>\n        and then jumped out at him from behind a door. \n          <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\">\n<p>Witnesses said Chavez looked nervous when MP Juaqn Carlos<br \/>\n        Galaverna told him about the ambush and even more scared when Castro<br \/>\n        made his sudden appearance. <\/p>\n<p>The two leaders then retired to a private salon for a quick game of &quot;52<br \/>\n      Pick-up&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_810484.html\">from Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A &quot;Chiste&quot; Among &quot;Compadres&quot; Cuban president Fidel Castro reportedly startled his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, with a practical joke when they met yesterday in Paraguay. He persuaded a Paraguayan MP to warn Chavez to watch out for an ambush &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/18\/leftist-leaders-in-loony-laughfest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}