{"id":31523,"date":"2019-02-02T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31523"},"modified":"2019-02-02T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T12:24:19","slug":"venezuelan-oil-or-florida-politics-why-is-trump-after-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31523","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan oil or Florida politics: Why is Trump after Maduro?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"69.218705036\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> has been quite transparent in its intentions regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/venezuela.html\">Venezuela<\/a> &#8211; it is determined to get rid of the current government and install the unelected, self-declared president Juan Guaido.<\/p>\n<p>The White House is very clear &#8211; it wants to overthrow the governments in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua; and the US control over the world&#8217;s largest oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are concerns in Washington that the Trump administration has mistaken opposition to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/nicolas-maduro.html\">Nicolas Maduro<\/a> for support for US intervention, or for a candidate asking for military intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Shihab Rattansi takes a look at how American domestic politics is shaping Washington&#8217;s policy on Venezuela.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has been quite transparent in its intentions regarding Venezuela &#8211; it is determined to get rid of the current government and install the unelected, self-declared president Juan Guaido. The White House is very clear &#8211; it wants to overthrow the governments in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua; and the US control over the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31523","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\/31523","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=31523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}