{"id":412646,"date":"2021-04-29T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T03:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=412646"},"modified":"2021-04-29T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:02:05","slug":"back-in-time-in-venezuela-without-diesel-oxen-replace-tractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/back-in-time-in-venezuela-without-diesel-oxen-replace-tractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in time in Venezuela: Without diesel, oxen replace tractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have gone back about two centuries,&#8221; groans farmer Alfonso Morales who, for a lack of diesel in oil-rich Venezuela, must now rely on oxen to plow his land. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plowing a hectare with oxen takes three or four days. With a tractor it is only about five hours,&#8221; Morales, 28, told AFP by telephone from Merida in the Andes mountains, where he is finding it increasingly difficult to eke out a living.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s deep economic slump, worsened by US sanctions, has seen the former oil giant run low on fuel for domestic use \u2014 a deficiency felt even more acutely in the South American country&#8217;s rural, food-growing parts than in the capital, Caracas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have gone back about two centuries,&#8221; groans farmer Alfonso Morales who, for a lack of diesel in oil-rich Venezuela, must now rely on oxen to plow his land. &#8220;Plowing a hectare with oxen takes three or four days. With a tractor it is only about five hours,&#8221; Morales, 28, told AFP by telephone from Merida in the Andes mountains, where he is finding it increasingly difficult to eke out a living. Venezuela&#8217;s deep economic slump, worsened by US sanctions, has seen the former oil giant run low on fuel for domestic use \u2014 a deficiency felt even more acutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}