{"id":9387,"date":"2026-01-05T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:22:08","slug":"trump-says-u-s-is-in-charge-of-venezuela-maduro-expected-in-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=9387","title":{"rendered":"Trump says U.S. is &#8220;in charge&#8221; of Venezuela, Maduro expected in court today."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife were captured and brought to the U.S. They will appear in federal court on today, according to an officials for District Court in the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump said in a Saturday press conference that the U.S. would &#8220;run&#8221; Venezuela temporarily during the transition, and &#8220;get the oil flowing.&#8221; He said Sunday the U.S. was &#8220;in charge&#8221; of Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro and his wife\u00a0landed in New York on Saturday\u00a0hours after being captured during a U.S. military operation in Caracas. They are being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn and will face\u00a0federal charges\u00a0related to drug trafficking and working with gangs designated as terrorist organizations, which Maduro denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife were captured and brought to the U.S. They will appear in federal court on today, according to an officials for District Court in the Southern District of New York. President Trump said in a Saturday press conference that the U.S. would &#8220;run&#8221; Venezuela temporarily during the transition, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[2093,18,1908,2091],"class_list":["post-9387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-smn24","tag-smn24media","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9389,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9387\/revisions\/9389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}