{"id":66164,"date":"2020-06-22T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=66164"},"modified":"2020-06-22T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:01:35","slug":"trump-open-to-meeting-with-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trump-open-to-meeting-with-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump open to meeting with Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Sunday that he would consider meeting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.<\/h2>\n<p>He said \u201cI would maybe think about that. &#8230; Maduro would like to meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump added that, \u201cI\u2019m never opposed to meetings \u2014 you know, rarely opposed to meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic relations between Caracas and Washington have been on a knife&#8217;s edge since early 2019 amid heightened political tension due to a power struggle between Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido.<\/p>\n<p>The US and dozens of other countries support and recognize Juan Guaid\u00f3 as Venezuela\u2019s true leader.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Trump also said he does not have much confidence in Guaido.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guaido was elected. I think that I wasn&#8217;t necessarily in favor, but I said \u2014 some people that liked it, some people didn&#8217;t. I was OK with it. I don&#8217;t think it was \u2014 you know, I don&#8217;t think it was very meaningful one way or the other,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said in an interview published on Sunday that he would consider meeting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. He said \u201cI would maybe think about that. &#8230; Maduro would like to meet.\u201d Trump added that, \u201cI\u2019m never opposed to meetings \u2014 you know, rarely opposed to meetings. Diplomatic relations between Caracas and Washington have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[77263,78393,12897],"class_list":["post-66164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-guaido","tag-nicolas-maduro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}