{"id":3204,"date":"2026-06-29T15:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:25:22","slug":"uri-psc-professor-meg-frost-quoted-in-washington-post-story-on-u-s-aid-to-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/2026\/06\/29\/uri-psc-professor-meg-frost-quoted-in-washington-post-story-on-u-s-aid-to-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"URI PSC professor Meg Frost quoted in Washington Post\u00a0story on U.S. aid to Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>URI Political Science Professor Meg Frost was quoted in\u00a0a recent article from <em>The Washington Post<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/06\/26\/quakes-give-us-opportunity-transform-venezuela-foe-friend\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2026\/06\/26\/quakes-give-us-opportunity-transform-venezuela-foe-friend\">Quakes give U.S. opportunity to transform Venezuela from foe to friend<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story examines how U.S. disaster relief following devastating earthquakes in Venezuela could reshape relations between Washington and Caracas. Frost emphasized that aid can either build or weaken public trust depending on how it is delivered. \u201cAid is double-edged,\u201d Frost told\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>. \u201cIt rebuilds trust only when it signals a government that is both competent and honest. In a low-trust, high-corruption setting, relief delivered [or not] through an opaque process can deepen distrust instead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Frost was quoted in The Washington Post on how U.S. disaster aid to Venezuela could affect public trust in a low-trust, high-corruption setting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":2635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3205,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/politicalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}