{"id":355490,"date":"2026-01-06T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355490\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:03:09","slug":"venezuela-latest-trump-says-many-cuban-soldiers-killed-in-caracas-raid-but-calls-operation-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355490\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela latest: Trump says &#8216;many&#8217; Cuban soldiers killed in Caracas raid but calls operation &#8216;brilliant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Venezuelans are too scared to leave homepublished at 12:53 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:53 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Mimi Swaby<br \/>Global affairs reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victoria lives in the centre-west of Venezuela. She hasn&#8217;t left home since Saturday, despite the state of commotion &#8211; a national emergency &#8211; being lifted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She tells me she is too scared to go outside, in case something happens. Victoria says the streets are practically empty, and many shops remain shut due to the uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nobody wants to risk encountering armed police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But what scares her more are the armed civilian groups that are &#8220;stopping people and checking their phones to see if you have content related to the situation&#8221;. And if so, &#8220;taking you to prison&#8221;, she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Venezuelans &#8220;are happy that January third was the beginning of the end of this government,&#8221; she adds, &#8220;but there are still many government figures in charge, and repression, intimidation, and fear remain in each of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As we&#8217;ve been reporting, dozens of military checkpoints have sprung up in Caracas, and foreign journalists are unable to enter the capital city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many Venezuelans are too scared to leave homepublished at 12:53 GMT 12:53 GMT Mimi SwabyGlobal affairs reporter Victoria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-355490","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\/355490","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=355490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}