{"id":385121,"date":"2026-01-03T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385121\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:33:09","slug":"trump-orders-strikes-on-caracas-bbcs-us-partner-says-as-venezuela-declares-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385121\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders strikes on Caracas, BBC&#8217;s US partner says, as Venezuela declares national emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/light-mode\/analysis.77b314ef10.svg\" alt=\"Analysis\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Reports of explosions come at moment of heightened tensionpublished at 07:27 GMT<\/p>\n<p>07:27 GMTBreaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/46a68edf-ce33-4a4c-8f8f-83cabf4a79fa.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Will Grant<br \/>Central America and Cuba Correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were numerous near-simultaneous reports of explosions in several places in Caracas, including military installations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">La Carlota, a military airfield in the centre of the city, and the main military base of Fuerte Tiuna were described by eyewitnesses as having been affected, with video circulating of apparent explosions at both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several of the surrounding communities are without power. There are unconfirmed reports of planes flying over the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The developments come at a moment of heightened tension between the US and Venezuela as Washington keeps up its military strikes on speedboats in the Caribbean allegedly carrying drugs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US says the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was illegitimately elected and is personally involved in drug-smuggling through the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Venezuelan Government say recent actions by Washington \u2013 which include the confiscation of sanctioned oil tankers \u2013 are part of an effort to force the removal of President Maduro from power and control Venezuela\u2019s oil reserves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reports of explosions come at moment of heightened tensionpublished at 07:27 GMT 07:27 GMTBreaking Will GrantCentral America and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-385121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}