{"id":26095,"date":"2020-12-24T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/24\/new-zealands-first-mexican-born-mp-says-adopted-country-has-many-blind-spots"},"modified":"2020-12-24T04:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T19:00:52","slug":"new-zealands-first-latin-american-mp-says-adopted-country-has-many-blind-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26095","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand&#8217;s first Latin American MP says adopted country has many blind spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s \u2018slick branding machine\u2019 can\u2019t hide \u2018entrenched inequality\u2019, says Ricardo Men\u00e9ndez March <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s first Latin American MP has had a controversial start: he\u2019s been labelled \u201cdisrespectful\u201d for his attitude to senior citizens, called out the government for hypocrisy over the country\u2019s \u201c100% Pure\u201d marketing campaign, and upset monarchists with a chihuahua meme about having to swear allegiance to the Queen.<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Men\u00e9ndez March, who describes himself as a \u201cproud socialist, transgressive queer\u201d, is one of three new Green party MPs in parliament after a huge swing to the left in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/17\/jacinda-arderns-labour-party-set-for-victory-in-new-zealand-election\">October\u2019s general election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/24\/new-zealands-first-mexican-born-mp-says-adopted-country-has-many-blind-spots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country\u2019s \u2018slick branding machine\u2019 can\u2019t hide \u2018entrenched inequality\u2019, says Ricardo Men\u00e9ndez March New Zealand\u2019s first Latin American MP has had a controversial start: he\u2019s been labelled \u201cdisrespectful\u201d for his attitude to senior citizens, called out t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1737,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-green-party","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26097,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26095\/revisions\/26097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}