{"id":682,"date":"2005-12-04T18:28:34","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T22:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/12\/04\/mr-danger-rides-again\/"},"modified":"2005-12-04T18:28:34","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T22:28:34","slug":"mr-danger-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/12\/04\/mr-danger-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Danger Rides Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7514'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"331\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/mrdanger.jpg\" width=\"262\" height=\"502\" align=\"left\">CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuelan<br \/>\n        President Hugo Chavez on Thursday accused U.S. President George W. Bush<br \/>\n        of trying to destabilize his government by engineering an opposition<br \/>\n        boycott of a December 4 legislative vote.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;Another conspiracy has been activated against Venezuela and I am<br \/>\n      not going to blame the dogs but the masters, the government of the United<br \/>\n      States,&quot; Chavez<br \/>\n      said.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;The one responsible for this conspiracy is the head of the empire:<br \/>\n      Mr. Danger. To give him his proper name, Mr. George W. Bush,&quot; he said<br \/>\n      in a late-night address.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>How cool is that? The Dowbrigade wishes that someone<br \/>\n        important would call HIM Mr. Danger. The only cool nickname we ever had<br \/>\n        was &quot;Captain Blood&quot; and that only lasted until the guy who called us<br \/>\n    that got arrested, went into rehab, and became a Hare Krishna.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>But our curiosity was piqued. Where did Chavez come<br \/>\n        up with the name?&nbsp; Did he use the Spanish &quot;Se?or Peligro&quot; or did<br \/>\n    he sprinkle his speech with the language of imperialism? <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Turns out there is a long-standing historical precendent<br \/>\n    to the nickname.&nbsp; According to DICK J. REAVIS at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/reavis11072005.html\">Counterpunch.com<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em> &quot;Mr.<br \/>\n          Danger is a long-standing figure in Venezuelan life, a character in a 1929<br \/>\n          work, many times republished, by the novelist R<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) &#8211; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday accused U.S. President George W. Bush of trying to destabilize his government by engineering an opposition boycott of a December 4 legislative vote. &quot;Another conspiracy has been activated against Venezuela &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/12\/04\/mr-danger-rides-again\/\">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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}