{"id":3506,"date":"2012-03-06T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2012-03-06T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T10:58:00","slug":"politics-spoil-cruise-experience-in-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/03\/politics-spoil-cruise-experience-in-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics spoil cruise experience in South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1d\/Ushuaia_port.JPG\/800px-Ushuaia_port.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1d\/Ushuaia_port.JPG\/800px-Ushuaia_port.JPG\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Port of Ushuaia (Argentina) is the gateway to Antarctica<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>One of the world&#8217;s most exotic and expensive cruise ship circuits is being threatened by political strife, as Argentina&#8217;s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands and social protests in Chile prevent thousands of passengers from going ashore along the tip of South America.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina, the Falklands government and Chile have succeeded in attracting more high-end cruises in recent years. Ushuaia, the world&#8217;s southernmost city, takes in 450 visits a year from ships that sail between Rio de Janeiro and Chile&#8217;s main port city of Valparaiso, stopping in isolated ports and even Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>But for mostly political reasons, a half-dozen ports of call have been canceled at the last minute in recent weeks, marring itineraries that include the islands, Ushuaia and Chile&#8217;s scenic Aysen region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/travel\/pricey-south-american-cruises-1374676.html\">Read Full Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?app_id=259616500730113&#038;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expeditioncruising.com%2F&#038;send=false&#038;layout=box_count&#038;width=450&#038;show_faces=true&#038;action=like&#038;colorscheme=light&#038;font&#038;height=90\" style=\"border: none; height: 90px; overflow: hidden; width: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port of Ushuaia (Argentina) is the gateway to Antarctica One of the world&#8217;s most exotic and expensive cruise ship circuits is being threatened by political strife, as Argentina&#8217;s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands and social protests in Chile prevent thousands of passengers from going ashore along the tip of South America. Argentina, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}