{"id":350362,"date":"2026-01-03T18:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350362\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:23:09","slug":"venezuela-latest-trump-says-us-will-run-venezuela-until-safe-transition-can-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350362\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela latest: Trump says US will ‘run’ Venezuela until ‘safe transition can take place’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State Rubio says Maduro had ‘multiple opportunities’ to avoid thispublished at 17:28 GMT<\/p>\n

17:28 GMT<\/p>\n

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We’re now hearing from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. <\/p>\n

He says Maduro is not the legitimate president. It is “not just us saying it”, he says, adding the first Trump administration and the Biden administration also said the same. <\/p>\n

Maduro is also not recognised by the EU and multiple countries around world, Rubio says.<\/p>\n

He describes the Venezuelan president as a “fugitive of American justice”, with a $50m reward. <\/p>\n

“I guess we saved ourselves $50m,” Rubio says, before Trump chimes in with: “We should make sure… don’t let anybody claim it.”<\/p>\n

Rubio continues by saying that Maduro had “multiple opportunities” to avoid this, but chose instead to “act like a wild man” and “play around”. <\/p>\n

He describes Maduro as a man who decided to “invite Iran into his country” and “flood the US with gang members”.<\/p>\n

Maduro thought nothing would happen, Rubio says, before adding that Trump is “not a game player”. <\/p>\n

When Trump says he is going to address a problem, he actions it, Rubio adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secretary of State Rubio says Maduro had ‘multiple opportunities’ to avoid thispublished at 17:28 GMT 17:28 GMT Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-350362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}