{"id":380649,"date":"2018-10-12T12:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T11:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-venezuelas-maduro-says-us-plans-to-assassinate-him\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T12:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T11:15:32","slug":"presstv-venezuelas-maduro-says-us-plans-to-assassinate-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-venezuelas-maduro-says-us-plans-to-assassinate-him\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Venezuela&#8217;s Maduro says US plans to assassinate him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said the Trump administration is\u00a0seeking to assassinate him, as relations strain between the two nations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maduro said in a nationally televised speech on Thursday that\u00a0the United States had\u00a0instructed\u00a0the Colombian government to organize his assassination which failed in early August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am saying this to\u00a0the entire world\u00a0\u2014 the order to\u00a0kill Maduro was given to\u00a0the [Colombian] government in\u00a0Bogota from\u00a0the White House that wants to\u00a0kill me,&#8221;\u00a0he said, stressing that\u00a0any future assassination attempt on\u00a0him would fail.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro survived an assassination attempt in early August during a military parade in capital Caracas.\u00a0He was unharmed while seven Venezuelan soldiers sustained injuries in\u00a0the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s president has repeatedly accused Washington and Bogota, particularly Colombian ex-president Juan Manuel Santos, of\u00a0having a role in\u00a0the attack. Moreover, Venezuela has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/12\/576757\/Maduro-Assassination-Claim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said the Trump administration is\u00a0seeking to assassinate him, as relations strain between the two nations.\u00a0 Maduro said in a nationally televised speech on Thursday that\u00a0the United States had\u00a0instructed\u00a0the Colombian government to organize his assassination which failed in early August.\u00a0 &#8220;I am saying this to\u00a0the entire world\u00a0\u2014 the order to\u00a0kill Maduro [&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-380649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}