{"id":32805,"date":"2019-02-22T06:14:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32805"},"modified":"2019-02-22T06:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:14:47","slug":"venezuela-is-closing-its-border-with-brazil-is-colombia-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32805","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela is closing its border with Brazil. Is Colombia next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Nicolas Maduro will close Venezuela&#8217;s border with Brazil, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/18\/americas\/venezuela-colombia-food-aid-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">tensions over foreign aid deliveries rise<\/a>. The embattled President also is considering closing the border with Colombia &#8212; a move that would seal off most of Venezuela&#8217;s inland periphery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a televised speech Thursday, Maduro announced the Brazil border closure and warned against trying to bring humanitarian supplies into Venezuela by force. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to make such a decision, but I am considering it &#8212; an absolute closure of the border with Colombia,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have taken all the measures so that everything can be peaceful,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Foreign aid is currently being assembled in both Brazil and Colombia for hungry Venezuelans, at the call of opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido. Despite accepting aid from the United Nations last year, Maduro opposes the new aid shipments and has described the opposition&#8217;s aid campaign as &#8220;a provocation.&#8221; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Nicolas Maduro will close Venezuela&#8217;s border with Brazil, as tensions over foreign aid deliveries rise. The embattled President also is considering closing the border with Colombia &#8212; a move that would seal off most of Venezuela&#8217;s inland periphery.In a televised speech Thursday, Maduro announced the Brazil border closure and warned against trying to bring humanitarian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32805","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\/32805","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=32805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}