{"id":7718,"date":"2019-08-06T15:27:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7718"},"modified":"2019-08-06T15:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T10:27:29","slug":"trump-freezes-venezuelan-government-assets-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7718","title":{"rendered":"Trump Freezes Venezuelan Government Assets in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the US,the toughest sanctions on Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government so far.<\/p>\n<p>The decision sharply escalating a diplomatic and sanctions drive aimed at removing socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no response so far from the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has been increasing the economic and diplomatic pressure on President Maduro, who has refused to give up power despite a popular uprising against his authoritarian government.<\/p>\n<p>The US and most Western nations have called for Maduro to step down and have recognised Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country&#8217;s legitimate president.<\/p>\n<p>China and Russia have continued to back Maduro, prompting US national security adviser, John Bolton, to warn the two countries on Monday against doubling down in their support for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the US,the toughest sanctions on Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government so far. The decision sharply escalating a diplomatic and sanctions drive aimed at removing socialist President Nicolas Maduro from power. There has been no response so far from the Venezuelan government. The United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7720,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions\/7720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}