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    "title": "The Defiance of Miss Venezuela",
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    "created": "2010-08-26 12:38:47 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Socialism: Quick, what's the murder capital of the world: Kabul? Juarez? Try Caracas, Venezuela, a city whose dictator, Hugo Chavez, has made murder a means of extending his control.</p>\n<p>The silent protest at Monday night's Miss Universe Pageant in Las Vegas was invisible to nearly everyone -- except Venezuelans. On her final catwalk, the ranking Miss Universe, Stefania Fernandez, suddenly whipped out a Venezuelan flag in a patriotic but protocol-breaking gesture.</p>\n<p>Fernandez waved her flag for the same reason Americans waved theirs after 9/11 -- to convey resolution amid distress. Her flag had seven stars, significant because Chavez had arbitrarily added an eighth, making any use of a difficult-to-find seven-star banner an act of defiance.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/545008/201008251856/The-Killing-Fields-Of-Caracas.aspx\">The Killing Fields Of Caracas - IBD - Investors.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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