{"id":77141,"date":"2019-01-24T02:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T01:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/24\/venezuela-trump-recognises-opposition-leader-as-president\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T01:55:18","slug":"venezuela-trump-recognises-opposition-leader-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=77141","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Trump recognises opposition leader as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Guaid\u00f3 also recognised by Canada, Brazil and ArgentinaDefiant Maduro urges supporters to \u2018resist at all costs\u2019Venezuela\u2019s opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 has declared himself the interim president, in a dramatic escalation of efforts to force out Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who has overseen the country\u2019s slide into authoritarianism and economic ruin.Guaid\u00f3 was quickly recognised by the US, Canada, European Union, Brazil, Colombia and other US allies in the Americas. Donald Trump warned that \u201call options are on the table\u201d if Maduro responded with force against the opposition, but US officials made clear that the White House was focused on economic measures and would look at ways to transfer Venezuelan assets and oil revenues to Guaid\u00f3 and the opposition-run national assembly. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/23\/enezuela-trump-president-juan-guaido-maduro-recognition-news-latest\" target=\"_blank\">Venezuela: Trump recognises opposition leader as president<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Guaid\u00f3 also recognised by Canada, Brazil and ArgentinaDefiant Maduro urges supporters to \u2018resist at all costs\u2019Venezuela\u2019s opposition leader Juan Guaid\u00f3 has declared himself the interim president, in a dramatic escalation of efforts to force out Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who has overseen the country\u2019s slide into authoritarianism and economic ruin.Guaid\u00f3 was [&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-77141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141","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=77141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}