{"id":35647,"date":"2018-06-29T12:09:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35647"},"modified":"2018-06-29T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:09:45","slug":"venezuelas-nicolas-maduro-calls-u-s-vp-mike-pence-a-poisonous-viper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/venezuelas-nicolas-maduro-calls-u-s-vp-mike-pence-a-poisonous-viper\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Nicolas Maduro calls U.S. VP Mike Pence a \u2018poisonous viper\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday called U.S. Vice President Mike Pence a \u201cviper\u201d and vowed to defeat what he called Washington\u2019s attempts to force him from power.<\/p>\n<p>Pence, who arrived in Ecuador on Wednesday as part of a tour of South America, is seeking to boost regional pressure on Venezuela following Maduro\u2019s reelection in May in a vote that the United States said was fraudulent.<\/p>\n<p>Even after President Donald Trump&#8217;s order putting a temporary halt to the separation of families arrested for crossing the border illegally, the pressure is on Republicans in Congress to come up with a solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time the poisonous viper Mike Pence opens his mouth, I feel stronger,\u201d the socialist leader said in a televised speech. \u201cWe have defeated you and we are going to defeat (you) wherever you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maduro insists that the United States is seeking to overthrow his government in order to seize the OPEC nation\u2019s oil and mineral wealth, and accuses Washington of leading an \u201ceconomic war\u201d against the country.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday called U.S. Vice President Mike Pence a \u201cviper\u201d and vowed to defeat what he called Washington\u2019s attempts to force him from power. Pence, who arrived in Ecuador on Wednesday as part of a tour of South America, is seeking to boost regional pressure on Venezuela following Maduro\u2019s reelection in [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35649,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35647\/revisions\/35649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}