{"id":18138,"date":"2018-10-12T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18138"},"modified":"2018-10-12T07:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T07:23:00","slug":"venezuelas-maduro-us-planning-to-assassinate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18138","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Maduro: US planning to assassinate me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"94.6027895694\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the Trump administration of seeking to assassinate him as relations strain between the ideologically opposed nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In a televised broadcast on Thursday night, Maduro &#8211; a former bus driver and union leader &#8211; said the United States had asked the government in neighbouring Colombia to kill him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;They have given the order from the White House that Maduro be killed,&#8221; said the president, flanked by workers. He vowed &#8220;they will not even touch a single hair of mine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro did not give an explanation for his accusations and did not provide any evidence. Venezuela&#8217;s information ministry did not respond to a request for further information.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the remarks, the White House did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s opposition says Maduro lobs ludicrous accusations at enemies to deflect from his own incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two million Venezuelans have fled the ailing oil-rich nation since 2015, driven out by brutal food and medicine shortages, hyperinflation, and violent crime. Washington has imposed sanctions on Venezuela, denouncing Maduro as a dictator who has quashed human rights and triggered an economic meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the White House accused Maduro&#8217;s government of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/accuses-venezuela-spies-involvement-suspicious-death-181011011713087.html\">involvement in the death<\/a> of a jailed Venezuelan politician whom authorities say killed himself, but whom opposition parties say was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro contends he is the victim of an &#8220;economic war&#8221; led by US-backed adversaries. He denies limiting political freedoms, insisting Washington-supported opposition leaders have plotted assassination attempts and sought to overthrow him through violent street protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Reuters news agency<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the Trump administration of seeking to assassinate him as relations strain between the ideologically opposed nations. In a televised broadcast on Thursday night, Maduro &#8211; a former bus driver and union leader &#8211; said the United States had asked the government in neighbouring Colombia to kill him. &#8220;They have given&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}