{"id":31481,"date":"2019-02-02T05:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T05:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31481"},"modified":"2019-02-02T05:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T05:23:43","slug":"putins-new-cold-war-on-americas-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31481","title":{"rendered":"Putin&#8217;s new Cold War on America&#8217;s doorstep?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The crisis in Venezuela appears to be shaping up like a Cold War-style confrontation: The Kremlin is throwing its support behind embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, while Washington backs Juan Guaido, the self-proclaimed interim president. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The story at first glance seems to have all the elements of a spy thriller. In recent days, rumors have swirled about Russian mercenaries, massive bullion shipments and murky assassination plots. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Maduro has cast himself as a latter-day Fidel Castro in this drama. In an interview with Russia&#8217;s state-owned news agency RIA-Novosti, Maduro hinted at a US-backed attempt on his life, saying, &#8220;Without a doubt, Donald Trump gave the order to kill me, told the Colombian government, the mafia of Colombia to kill me.&#8221;  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The crisis in Venezuela appears to be shaping up like a Cold War-style confrontation: The Kremlin is throwing its support behind embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, while Washington backs Juan Guaido, the self-proclaimed interim president. The story at first glance seems to have all the elements of a spy thriller. In recent days, rumors have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31481","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\/31481","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=31481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}