{"id":430655,"date":"2026-01-24T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430655\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:21:11","slug":"state-of-the-world-from-npr-npr-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430655\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the World from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769275271_282_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/6192x4128+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F20%2F2a%2F1d279cfe4c698a5ab2504604aded%2F7ebfde85-ad13-4f05-ab0b-a10798707129.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                A pumpjack with the colors of the Venezuelan flag is seen on a street in Caracas on January 20, 2026. Venezuela&#8217;s interim President Delcy Rodriguez said on January 20, 2025, that her country has received $300 million from a United States sale of Venezuelan crude and she will use it to prop up her country&#8217;s battered currency, the bolivar.<\/p>\n<p>                    Juan Barreto\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Juan Barreto\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"readrate\" data-rr=\"18\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Dollars are trickling back into Venezuela, they\u2019re the proceeds from the oil seized and by the U.S.  That is helping to stabilize runaway prices in Venezuela\u2014at least on paper. But for ordinary shoppers in Caracas, market prices remain dizzying, and families still struggle to make ends meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pumpjack with the colors of the Venezuelan flag is seen on a street in Caracas on January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-430655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}