{"id":8495,"date":"2010-11-11T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"cuba-doesn-t-like-black-ops-and-its-sociopathic-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/8495-cuba-doesn-t-like-black-ops-and-its-sociopathic-propaganda","title":{"rendered":"Cuba doesn\u2019t like Black Ops and its \u201csociopathic\u201d propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>It&rsquo;s not just PC gamers who hate Call of Duty: Black Ops &ndash; apparently the entire Cuban population is all up in a rage about the game. Or, rather, a sequence involving a CIA assassination attempt on erstwhile Cuban el presidente Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What the United States couldn&#8217;t accomplish in more than 50 years, they are now trying to do virtually,&#8221; says an article posted on Cubadebate, a state-run media website. It&rsquo;s alleged that the CIA has undertaken some 638 assassination attempts on Castro over the years, including an exploding cigar, infected scuba gear, and various poisons. In Black Ops, they&rsquo;ve dispensed with such elegant subtleties, and go in shooting instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new video game is doubly perverse,&#8221; the Cubadebate article goes on to rant. &#8220;On the one hand, it glorifies the illegal assassination attempts the United States government planned against the Cuban leader &#8230; and on the other, it stimulates sociopathic attitudes in North American children and adolescents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the bit about laggy multiplayer and glitched Care Packages is implied.<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or maybe they\u2019re just lagging in multiplayer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}