{"id":385358,"date":"2026-01-03T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385358\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:40:10","slug":"trump-confirms-u-s-strikes-on-venezuela-says-maduro-was-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385358\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump confirms U.S. strikes on Venezuela, says Maduro was &#8216;captured&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3v\">Venezuela&#8217;s defense minister today vowed a &#8220;wall of resistance&#8221; against what he characterized as U.S. imperialism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"3y\">In a defiant address, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino L\u00f3pez called the bombing of Caracas and the surrounding areas illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"41\">\u201cFar from a supposed fight against narcoterrorism, this deplorable action seeks to definitively force a regime change and subject us to the spurious designs of North American imperialism,&#8221; Padrino L\u00f3pez said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/260103-venezuela-mb-1059-03453f.jpg\"  alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"block mb-1\" q:id=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino L\u00f3pez this morning.\u00a0@padrinovladimir \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"4a\">The strikes struck urban areas with civilians, and a tally of possible injuries and deaths was ongoing, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"4d\">\u201cThey have attacked us, but they will not make us bend. United, soldier and civilian, we will form an indestructible wall of resistance,&#8221; the defense minister said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"4g\">\u201cWe who extend the hand in brotherhood today close the fist in defense of what is ours,&#8221; Padrino L\u00f3pez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s defense minister today vowed a &#8220;wall of resistance&#8221; against what he characterized as U.S. imperialism. In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-385358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385358","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=385358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}