{"id":32990,"date":"2019-02-23T19:32:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32990"},"modified":"2019-02-23T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:32:05","slug":"as-tense-standoff-for-humanitarian-aid-continues-3-venezuelan-troops-defect-at-colombia-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32990","title":{"rendered":"As tense standoff for humanitarian aid continues, 3 Venezuelan troops defect at Colombia border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)<\/cite>Tensions escalated along Venezuela&#8217;s borders Saturday as the Venezuelan National Guard fired tear gas at protesters and the opposition began to usher aid into the troubled country in defiance of President Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Soldiers faced off against protesters early Saturday who were demanding to cross the border at Ure\u00f1a to go work in Colombia, according to a CNN crew that witnessed the scene at the Tienditas Bridge.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Protesters chanted, &#8220;We want to work!&#8221; as National Guard fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them. Men with shirts covering their faces started throwing rocks toward the guard members.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)Tensions escalated along Venezuela&#8217;s borders Saturday as the Venezuelan National Guard fired tear gas at protesters and the opposition began to usher aid into the troubled country in defiance of President Nicolas Maduro.Soldiers faced off against protesters early Saturday who were demanding to cross the border at Ure\u00f1a to go work in Colombia,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32990","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\/32990","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=32990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}