{"id":15309,"date":"2024-11-12T16:49:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=15309"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:50:07","slug":"gustavo-dudamel-met-protests-los-angeles-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/11\/12\/gustavo-dudamel-met-protests-los-angeles-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustavo Dudamel Met With Protests in Los Angeles Over Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15310\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/11\/Gustavo-Dudamel-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gustavo Dudamel\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/11\/Gustavo-Dudamel-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/11\/Gustavo-Dudamel-2-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/11\/Gustavo-Dudamel-2-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/11\/Gustavo-Dudamel-2-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gustavo Dudamel (Photo: courtesy of the artist)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, tThe Human Rights Federation protested the music director-designate of the New York Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel. The conductor has been called a \u201cpuppet and henchman\u201d for Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong> Last week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hrf.org\/latest\/hrf-protests-gustavo-dudamel-maduros-unofficial-ambassador\/\">Human Rights Federation (HRF) held protests<\/a> against Gustavo Dudamel outside the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The Venezuelan Conductor-designate of the New York Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laphil.com\/events\/performances\/3008\/2024-11-02\/dia-de-los-muertos-with-dudamel\">was conducting<\/a> the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dudamel has been criticized for his silence over the human rights violations of Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, from whom Dudamel receives millions of dollars in off the books payments. Dudamel leads <a href=\"https:\/\/elsistema.org.ve\/\">El Sistema<\/a>, a Venezuelan state-run music education program that also serves as a propaganda tool for the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digging deeper:<\/strong> Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has served as president of Venezuela since 2013. As president, he has been accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/hrf.org\/latest\/hrf-protests-gustavo-dudamel-maduros-unofficial-ambassador\/\">corruption, violent repression of civil society, economic collapse, mass exodus, and for recently stealing an election from Edmundo Gonzalez<\/a>. Maduro is currently being investigated by the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/hrf.org\/letter-to-walt-disney-concert-house-denouncing-gustavo-dudamel\/\">a letter to LA Philharmonic concertgoers<\/a>, the HRF wrote that while Dudamel occasionally criticizes Maduro in public, he serves as an unofficial ambassador for the regime in private. Dudamel has stayed silent over the recent election results, in which Venezuelans voted overwhelmingly for Gonzalez, and refuses to condemn the Maduro regime\u2019s human rights violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, tThe Human Rights Federation protested the music director-designate of the New York Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":15310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3],"tags":[197],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/11\/Gustavo-Dudamel-2.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15312,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15309\/revisions\/15312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15309"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}