{"id":17470,"date":"2026-01-15T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=17470"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:30:59","slug":"venezuela-opposition-leader-due-to-meet-with-trump-as-situation-remains-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/15\/venezuela-opposition-leader-due-to-meet-with-trump-as-situation-remains-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Opposition leader due to meet with Trump as situation remains tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/venezuelas-opposition-leader-machado-visits-trump-white-house-nobel-rcna253635\">NBC News reports<\/a>: &#8220;Mar\u00eda Corina Machado\u2026 is set to visit the White House on Thursday amid speculation that she may offer Trump her [Nobel Prize] in appreciation for the U.S. military raid that deposed Venezuela\u2019s repressive leader, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Machado is the Venezuelan opposition figure whom the Nobel selection committee chose last year for an award that has become a Trump fixation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Machado is politically way to the right of Venezuela&#8217;s ruling regime.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela\u2019s interior minister [described in the <em>NY Times<\/em> headline as &#8216;Maduro&#8217;s Enforcer&#8217;], is accused by U.S. prosecutors of drug trafficking and is linked to repression at home, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/15\/world\/americas\/venezuela-diosdado-cabello-maduro.html\">remains a powerful figure<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Semafor: &#8220;President Donald Trump went nuclear on five Republican senators for advancing a resolution that could constrain his military power in Venezuela. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/15\/2026\/how-rubio-blunted-senates-momentum-on-venezuela\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio helped sideline the resolution<\/a> with more subtle congressional diplomacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stakes remain high, but there&#8217;s no telling what Donald might do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17491,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470\/revisions\/17491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}