{"id":156207,"date":"2018-03-13T00:58:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156207"},"modified":"2018-03-13T00:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T04:58:22","slug":"reggaeton-star-insults-venezuelan-leader-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/13\/reggaeton-star-insults-venezuelan-leader-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Reggaeton star insults Venezuelan leader on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_156213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156213\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29133697_10155389292275036_4964639339821662208_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156213\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29133697_10155389292275036_4964639339821662208_n.jpg\" alt=\"The Colombian star extends a middle finger toward Nicolas Maduro and refers to him with an expletive in a brief music clip on his Instagram account. It racked up nearly 1.8 million views in the first 19 hours after being posted. (Photo: J Balvin\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29133697_10155389292275036_4964639339821662208_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29133697_10155389292275036_4964639339821662208_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29133697_10155389292275036_4964639339821662208_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/29133697_10155389292275036_4964639339821662208_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Colombian star extends a middle finger toward Nicolas Maduro and refers to him with an expletive in a brief music clip on his Instagram account. It racked up nearly 1.8 million views in the first 19 hours after being posted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JBalvinOficial\/photos\/a.261611745035.138823.18712130035\/10155389292270036\/?type=3&amp;theater\">(Photo:<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JBalvinOficial\/\"> J Balvin\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CARACAS, Venezuela &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s reggaeton-loving president may skip the next song by Latin Grammy-winner J Balvin.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian star extends a middle finger toward Nicolas Maduro and refers to him with an expletive in a brief music clip on his Instagram account. It racked up nearly 1.8 million views in the first 19 hours after being posted.<\/p>\n<p>A publicist for the musician declined to say if it was a clip from an upcoming release.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s socialist president is a former rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll musician who sometimes breaks into reggaeton lyrics at public events.<\/p>\n<p>That hasn&#8217;t saved him from criticism being thrown at him by musicians including Alejandro Sanz, Carlos Vives, Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee, who have decried the country&#8217;s economic and political crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, Venezuela &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s reggaeton-loving president may skip the next song by Latin Grammy-winner J Balvin. The Colombian star extends &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":156213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48084,16237,22190,48083,22191,30988],"class_list":["post-156207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alejandro-sanz","tag-carlos-vives","tag-daddy-yankee","tag-latin-grammy-winner-j-balvin","tag-luis-fonsi","tag-nicolas-maduro","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}