{"id":54050,"date":"2026-01-04T10:39:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54050"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:40:03","slug":"trump-says-us-will-run-venezuela-after-maduro-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=54050","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US will run Venezuela after Maduro seized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK, Jan 4  &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s toppled leader Nicolas Maduro was in a New York detention center on Sunday awaiting drug charges after President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0ordered an audacious raid to capture him, saying the U.S. would take control of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/no-quick-wins-tapping-venezuelas-oil-reserves-2026-01-04\/\">oil-producing nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The image of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/newsmaker-nicolas-maduros-heavy-handed-rule-venezuela-is-finally-ended-by-trump-2026-01-03\/\">63-year-old Maduro<\/a>&nbsp;blindfolded and handcuffed en route to the U.S. has stunned Venezuelans and was Washington&#8217;s most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/condemnation-applause-latin-america-after-us-seizes-venezuelas-maduro-2026-01-03\/\">controversial intervention in Latin America<\/a>&nbsp;since the invasion of Panama 37 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is due to appear in a Manhattan court on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With memories of painful U.S. interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, many&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/world-reacts-us-strikes-venezuela-2026-01-03\/\">world leaders were staggered<\/a>&nbsp;at Trump&#8217;s move, even though Maduro&#8217;s standing was low given his autocratic rule and substantial evidence of vote-rigging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) NEW YORK, Jan 4 &#8211; Venezuela&#8217;s toppled leader Nicolas Maduro was in a New York detention center on Sunday awaiting drug charges after President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0ordered an audacious raid to capture him, saying the U.S. would take control of the\u00a0oil-producing nation. The image of the&nbsp;63-year-old Maduro&nbsp;blindfolded and handcuffed en route to the U.S. has stunned Venezuelans and was Washington&#8217;s most&nbsp;controversial intervention in Latin America&nbsp;since the invasion of Panama 37 years ago. He is due to appear in a Manhattan court on Monday. With memories of painful U.S. interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, many&nbsp;world leaders were staggered&nbsp;at Trump&#8217;s move, even&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54052,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050\/revisions\/54052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}