{"id":30434,"date":"2019-01-24T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30434"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:23:19","slug":"un-chief-calls-for-dialogue-to-prevent-a-total-disaster-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30434","title":{"rendered":"UN chief calls for dialogue to prevent a &#8216;total disaster&#8217; in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>With two declared leaders, unrest in the streets and foreign powers taking sides, Venezuelans awoke Thursday to an increasingly precarious political crisis &#8212; one that led the United Nations&#8217; chief to plead for dialogue to prevent &#8220;total disaster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/23\/americas\/juan-guaido-venezuela\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">head of Venezuela&#8217;s opposition-led<strong> <\/strong>National Assembly<\/a> declared himself acting president Wednesday amid massive anti-government protests, openly rebelling against socialist President Nicolas Maduro, whose opponents say was illegitimately elected for a second term.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Some nations &#8212; including the United States and Canada &#8212; have said they&#8217;ll recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as president, while Russia, China and others are backing Maduro, setting the stage for a struggle for Venezuela&#8217;s future both within and outside the South American country.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)With two declared leaders, unrest in the streets and foreign powers taking sides, Venezuelans awoke Thursday to an increasingly precarious political crisis &#8212; one that led the United Nations&#8217; chief to plead for dialogue to prevent &#8220;total disaster.&#8221;The head of Venezuela&#8217;s opposition-led National Assembly declared himself acting president Wednesday amid massive anti-government protests, openly rebelling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30434","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=30434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}