{"id":10529,"date":"2026-01-06T03:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10529"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:11:19","slug":"venezuela-latest-china-demands-us-free-maduro-as-trump-threatens-military-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=10529","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela latest: China demands US free Maduro \u2013 as Trump threatens military op"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In one day, Washington faced two self-made storms. China\u2019s demand to free Nicol\u00e1s Maduro wasn\u2019t just diplomatic theater\u2014it openly challenged U.S. power and influence in its own backyard. By backing a controversial Latin American leader, Beijing signaled it\u2019s ready to confront America beyond trade or Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Donald Trump sparked another crisis. Calling Colombia\u2019s president a \u201csick man\u201d and suggesting he \u201cwon\u2019t be in power for long\u201d crossed from rhetoric into intimidation. For many in the region, it revived an old fear: that Latin America is still treated as a chessboard, not a collection of fragile democracies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one day, Washington faced two self-made storms. China\u2019s demand to free Nicol\u00e1s Maduro wasn\u2019t just diplomatic theater\u2014it openly challenged U.S. power and influence in its own backyard. By backing a controversial Latin American leader, Beijing signaled it\u2019s ready to confront America beyond trade or Asia. Then Donald Trump sparked another crisis. Calling Colombia\u2019s president &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}