{"id":106809,"date":"2019-08-21T02:45:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/21\/venezuelan-leader-nicolas-maduro-confirms-months-of-secret-us-talks\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T02:45:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:45:58","slug":"venezuelan-leader-nicolas-maduro-confirms-months-of-secret-us-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106809","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro confirms months of secret US talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Various contacts\u2019 made, says embattled president, amid reports he is negotiating a way to stand down Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has confirmed top Venezuelan officials have been talking to members of Donald Trump\u2019s White House, after reports his second-in-command had been negotiating his downfall with the United States.\u201cI confirm that for months there have been contacts between senior officials from Donald Trump\u2019s government and from the Bolivarian government over which I preside \u2013 with my express and direct permission,\u201d Venezuela\u2019s authoritarian leader said in a televised address on Tuesday night. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/21\/venezuelan-leader-nicolas-maduro-confirms-months-of-secret-us-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro confirms months of secret US talks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Various contacts\u2019 made, says embattled president, amid reports he is negotiating a way to stand down Nicol\u00e1s Maduro has confirmed top Venezuelan officials have been talking to members of Donald Trump\u2019s White House, after reports his second-in-command had been negotiating his downfall with the United States.\u201cI confirm that for months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}