{"id":30982,"date":"2019-01-29T03:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T03:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30982"},"modified":"2019-01-29T03:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T03:22:35","slug":"venezuelan-troops-ready-to-die-for-their-homeland-defense-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30982","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan troops &#8216;ready to die&#8217; for their homeland, defense minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>As Venezuela&#8217;s self-appointed interim president reportedly works behind the scenes to win over the armed forces, even offering them amnesty for past crimes, the country&#8217;s defense minister said Monday that the military is &#8220;ready to die&#8221; for its homeland. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino tweeted the statement as Venezuela&#8217;s opposition, led by Juan Guaido, head of the National Assembly, called for massive rallies to demand President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s ouster, and as Maduro claims the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/27\/americas\/venezuela-maduro-us-coup-accusation\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">United States has orchestrated a coup<\/a> to topple him. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On Monday, Maduro slammed US National Security Adviser John Bolton, accusing Bolton and US President Donald Trump&#8217;s government of openly calling for a coup from Washington. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)As Venezuela&#8217;s self-appointed interim president reportedly works behind the scenes to win over the armed forces, even offering them amnesty for past crimes, the country&#8217;s defense minister said Monday that the military is &#8220;ready to die&#8221; for its homeland. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino tweeted the statement as Venezuela&#8217;s opposition, led by Juan Guaido, head of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30982","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\/30982","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=30982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}