{"id":2387650,"date":"2025-01-07T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/venezuelan-opposition-leader-says-son-in-law-kidnapped-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T03:18:32","slug":"venezuelan-opposition-leader-says-son-in-law-kidnapped-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/venezuelan-opposition-leader-says-son-in-law-kidnapped-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan opposition leader says son-in-law kidnapped &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvenezuelan-opposition-leader-says-son-in-law-kidnapped-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2387650&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-unsuccessfully-reaches-out-to-north-korea-through-multiple-channels-over-soldier\/\" title=\"US attempts to contact North Korea regarding soldier prove fruitless.\">recent\u200d incident involving<\/a> a Venezuelan opposition leader who reported that \u2063their son-in-law\u200b was kidnapped just a day after a meeting \u2062with U.S.President\u2064 Joe\u2063 Biden. \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-camp-unleashes-on-media-for-brazenly-lying-about-his-comments-on-georgia-school-shooting\/\" title=\"JD Vance Camp Unleashes on Media for &#039;Brazenly Lying&#039; About His Comments on Georgia School Shooting\">situation highlights ongoing tensions<\/a> \u2064and challenges within Venezuela,especially in the context of political negotiations and\u2062 international relations. The article likely offers\u2062 insights into the implications of these developments for both Venezuelan politics \u200dand U.S. foreign policy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Venezuelan opposition leader says son-in-law kidnapped day after Biden meeting<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1929987\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3235663\/us-acknowledges-venezuelan-president-elect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Edmundo Gonzalez<\/a>, whom the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> called the &ldquo;president-elect&rdquo; of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Venezuela<\/a> despite Nicolas Maduro&rsquo;s continued hold on the country, said his son-in-law was kidnapped in Caracas the day after he met with President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Gonzalez announced the news Tuesday afternoon, adding that his son-in-law was dropping off his children at school before &ldquo;hooded men dressed in black&rdquo; kidnapped him and placed him in a truck.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This morning my son-in-law Rafael Tudares was kidnapped,&rdquo; Gonzalez said in a statement on X. &ldquo;Rafael was heading to my grandchildren&rsquo;s school, ages 7 and 6, in Caracas, to drop them off for the start of classes, and he was intercepted by hooded men dressed in black, who put him in a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">gold-colored pickup truck<\/a> with the license plate AA54E2C and took him away. At this time he is missing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that Maduro, the authoritarian president of Venezuela and political rival of Gonzalez, had a role in the kidnapping, but the State Department suggested that he did.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We condemn the attempts by Maduro and his representatives to intimidate the democratic opposition in Venezuela,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usembassyve\/status\/1876708504569782307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the department<\/a> said. &ldquo;Repression and intimidation cannot hide the truth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Maduro&rsquo;s government expressed anger at Biden&rsquo;s meeting with Gonzalez, saying the meeting was &ldquo;a flagrant violation of international law and a crude attempt to perpetuate imperialist interference in Latin America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Maduro has maintained that he won the July 2024 election even though a collection of the votes in the country showed Gonzalez won decisively. Gonzalez is now in exile in Spain, and Maduro has placed a $100,000 bounty for him to be captured. He will likely be arrested if he returns to the country.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2025\/01\/06\/readout-of-president-bidens-meeting-with-president-elect-edmundo-gonzalez-urrutia-of-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">readout <\/a>of the meeting between Biden and Gonzalez said the president &ldquo;emphasized that the world was inspired by the millions of Venezuelans who courageously voted for democratic change in Venezuela&rsquo;s deeply flawed July 28 presidential election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Both leaders agreed there is nothing more essential to the success of democracy than respecting the will of the people, as expressed through a transparent and accountable electoral process, and that Gonzalez Urrutia&rsquo;s campaign victory should be honored through a peaceful transfer back to democratic rule,&rdquo; it said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rafael Tudares&rsquo;s wife, Mariana Gonz&aacute;lez, said in a statement that her kidnapped husband was a victim of &ldquo;persecution.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At what point did it become a crime to be Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia&rsquo;s family?&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1929987\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1929987\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan opposition leader reports son-in-law&#8217;s kidnapping after Biden meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2387651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/edmundo-blinken-winner.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3868,36710,32603,48100,32076],"class_list":["post-2387650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-kidnapping","tag-latin-america","tag-political-news","tag-venezuelan-opposition","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/edmundo-blinken-winner.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387654,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387650\/revisions\/2387654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}