{"id":10159,"date":"2026-03-17T12:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=10159"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:10:42","slug":"a-slice-of-caracas-flourishes-in-an-unlikely-spot-the-italian-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/a-slice-of-caracas-flourishes-in-an-unlikely-spot-the-italian-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"A Slice of Caracas Flourishes in an Unlikely Spot: The Italian Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I\u2019m standing in front of a statue of Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, South America\u2019s independence hero. Next to it, a stand selling \u201cperros calientes,\u201d or hot dogs, is attracting a line of people, while a few steps away a sign in Spanish reads, \u201cPlaya Flamingo,\u201d with a Venezuelan flag fluttering in the wind.<br><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/00Int-Venezuela-Italy-Scrolly-04-superJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10164\"\/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/02\/world\/americas\/italy-marina-di-camerota-venezuela-migrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generations of migrants from a village on the coast of southern Italy found a better life in Venezuela. Many came back and turned their town into a mini-Caracas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":10164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/00Int-Venezuela-Italy-Scrolly-04-superJumbo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10165,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10159\/revisions\/10165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}