{"id":1334,"date":"2026-01-08T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:14:56","slug":"venezuela-latest-china-demands-us-free-maduro-as-trump-threatens-military-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela latest: China demands US free Maduro \u2013 as Trump threatens military op"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In a single day, Washington found itself staring down two storms of its own making. China\u2019s blunt demand to release Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was more than diplomatic theater; it was a public test of American power, sovereignty, and moral authority. By tying its prestige to the fate of a controversial Latin American leader, Beijing signaled it is ready to challenge the U.S. not just in the South China Sea or on trade, but in America\u2019s own geopolitical backyard.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"pb-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"site-content container is_full_width clear\">\n<div id=\"primary\" class=\"content-area\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-89079\" class=\"post-89079 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p>Then Donald Trump\u2019s words detonated another crisis. By calling Colombia\u2019s president a \u201csick man\u201d and hinting he \u201cwon\u2019t be in power for long,\u201d he turned routine rhetoric into something darker and more destabilizing. For Colombians, it sounded like a threat. For the region, it echoed an old fear: that Washington still sees Latin America as a chessboard, not a community of fragile democracies caught between rival empires.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-tags\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside id=\"secondary\" class=\"widget-area sidebar\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rltdpstsplgn-featured-post-block\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a single day, Washington found itself staring down two storms of its own making. China\u2019s blunt demand to release Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was more than diplomatic theater; it was a public test of American&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.topnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}