{"id":394126,"date":"2019-01-25T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T08:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-maduro-orders-closure-of-embassy-in-us-amid-coup\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T08:56:57","slug":"presstv-maduro-orders-closure-of-embassy-in-us-amid-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-maduro-orders-closure-of-embassy-in-us-amid-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Maduro orders closure of embassy in US amid &#8216;coup&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of Venezuela\u2019s embassy and consulates in the US after Washington threw its weight behind opposition leader Juan Guaido who declared himself interim president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The call came only a day after Caracas severed diplomatic ties with Washington and ordered all US diplomats to leave Venezuela within 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>During a lengthy speech at a special session at the Supreme Court, the Venezuelan president censured US President Donald Trump for seeking to orchestrate a coup against his government and backing the self-declared leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe there\u2019s no doubt that Donald Trump wants to impose a de facto government, unconstitutional government, a coup against the people and democracy in Venezuela,&#8221; Maduro said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s no doubt that is Donald Trump with his craziness of believing he\u2019s the world\u2019s police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>At least 10 countries, including Russia, Turkey and Iran, have expressed their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/25\/586718\/Venezuela-Maduro-US-Juan-Guaido\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of Venezuela\u2019s embassy and consulates in the US after Washington threw its weight behind opposition leader Juan Guaido who declared himself interim president. The call came only a day after Caracas severed diplomatic ties with Washington and ordered all US diplomats to leave Venezuela within 72 hours. During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}