{"id":2382,"date":"2026-01-05T14:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duye.live\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:11:48","slug":"venezuela-latest-china-demands-us-free-maduro-as-trump-threatens-military-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duye.live\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela latest: China demands US free Maduro \u2013 as Trump threatens military op"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/duye.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/duye.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/duye.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/duye.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/duye.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-105.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\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 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2384,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duye.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}