{"id":353392,"date":"2026-01-05T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353392\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:59:07","slug":"venezuela-latest-updates-handcuffed-maduro-seen-surrounded-by-armed-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353392\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela latest updates: Handcuffed Maduro seen surrounded by armed police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders in Spain react to Maduro&#8217;s seizurepublished at 11:25 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:25 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0daf29fb-7f19-47b1-8653-a9424ec7648f.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Guy Hedgecoe<br \/>Reporting from Madrid<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spanish Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Albares speaks to reporters outside an EU council meeting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2441355a-815a-4678-87d6-1082e089585e.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spanish government has been an outspoken critic of the<br \/>\nUS\u2019s removal of Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Foreign Minister Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares told Cadena Ser radio<br \/>\nthat the intervention was violating international law and set \u201ca very dangerous<br \/>\nprecedent for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain has asked to participate in today\u2019s UN Security<br \/>\nCouncil meeting on the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albares\u2019 comments echoed those of the Socialist prime<br \/>\nminister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, who told party members Washington\u2019s use of force was<br \/>\n\u201can act that we fully condemn, as we do the suffering of the people of Ukraine<br \/>\nand Palestine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An estimated 600,000 Venezuelans live in Spain, many having<br \/>\nfled the economic and social chaos of their home country in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The conservative People\u2019s Party (PP) takes a very different<br \/>\nview. It has applauded Maduro\u2019s removal, while expressing some concerns about<br \/>\nits legality. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The PP warned against allowing the vice-president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez,<br \/>\nto succeed Maduro, calling for elections instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders in Spain react to Maduro&#8217;s seizurepublished at 11:25 GMT 11:25 GMT Guy HedgecoeReporting from Madrid Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-353392","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\/353392","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=353392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}