{"id":2388633,"date":"2025-01-10T03:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-issues-warning-to-venezuelas-maduro-not-to-harm-opposition-leader-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T03:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:57:42","slug":"trump-issues-warning-to-venezuelas-maduro-not-to-harm-opposition-leader-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-issues-warning-to-venezuelas-maduro-not-to-harm-opposition-leader-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump issues warning to Venezuela\u2019s Maduro not to harm opposition leader &#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\">28<\/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%2Ftrump-issues-warning-to-venezuelas-maduro-not-to-harm-opposition-leader-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=2388633&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>President-elect Donald\u200c Trump issued a strong warning\u2064 to Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s maduro,urging\u200b him not\u200b to harm Maria Corina\u2063 Machado,a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/violent-persecution-of-christians-in-nicaragua-part-of-regional-transformations\/\" title=\"Violent Persecution of Christians in Nicaragua Part of Regional \u2018Transformations\u2019\">key opposition leader<\/a> in\u2062 Venezuela. this warning \u200dcame after reports indicated that\u200b Machado, who had been\u200b in hiding, was \u200ddetained following her participation in \u200cprotests against Maduro&#8217;s \u2062upcoming presidential inauguration. Machado&#8217;s \u200daides \u200dclaimed she was &#8220;violently intercepted&#8221; after \u200bleaving the protest. In a post on his \u2063Truth Social \u2063account, \u200dTrump emphasized the safety of Machado and \u200bother activists who\u200d are expressing the desires of the venezuelan people.He highlighted the\u2062 support\u200c from the venezuelan American community for a free \u200bvenezuela,insisting\u200b that these\u2064 activists should remain safe. Later, Machado confirmed\u200b her \u200crelease and stated that she was in a \u200dsecure location.  <\/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\">Trump issues warning to Venezuela&rsquo;s Maduro not to harm opposition leader<\/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_1931154\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President-elect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> gave Venezuelan President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nicolas-maduro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nicolas Maduro<\/a> a stern warning on Thursday not to harm his country&rsquo;s opposition leader.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The president-elect issued the message after reports surfaced that Maria Corina Machado, the head of Venezuela&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-faces-first-main-foreign-policy-test-within-georgia\/\" title=\"Biden Faces First Main Foreign Policy Test within Georgia\">opposition party<\/a> and fierce critic of the South American country&rsquo;s president, had been detained by Maduro&rsquo;s regime. Machado was in hiding in Venezuela but made her first public appearance in weeks to lead demonstrations protesting Maduro&rsquo;s presidential inauguration scheduled for January 10. <\/p>\n<p>Machado&rsquo;s aides said she was &ldquo;violently intercepted&rdquo; after leaving a protest on Thursday and detained, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/09\/americas\/maria-corina-machado-venezuela-protests-intl-latam\/index.html\" title=\"\">reports<\/a>. Trump gave the warning through a post on his Truth Social account.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113800699320833807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Machado later posted on X that she was free and in a &ldquo;safe place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Venezolanos,<\/p>\n<p>Hoy, el Bravo Pueblo demostr&oacute; c&oacute;mo se VENCE al miedo!<\/p>\n<p>Nunca me he sentido tan orgullosa de ser venezolana.<\/p>\n<p>Gracias, gracias, a todos los ciudadanos que salieron a las calles a reivindicar nuestra victoria del 28 de julio y a COBRARLA!<\/p>\n<p>Mi coraz&oacute;n est&aacute; <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">con el&#038;hellip<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mar&iacute;a Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MariaCorinaYA\/status\/1877518564636381617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I am now in a safe place and more determined than ever before to continue with you UNTIL THE END!&rdquo; Machado said in a translated post from X. &ldquo;Tomorrow I will tell you what happened today and what is coming. Venezuela will be FREE! GLORY TO THE BRAVE PEOPLE!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Maduro supposedly won reelection to Venezuela&rsquo;s presidency on July 28, 2024, besting opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez. However, the election was heavily scrutinized, with many believing that Gonzalez was the true victor and that the actual results were hidden by Maduro loyalists in Venezuela&rsquo;s government. The opposition party allegedly provided evidence Gonzalez won, showing voter tallies, but Venezuelan authorities rejected the claims. Instead, the country&rsquo;s National Electoral Council declared Maduro the winner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Maduro has cracked down on political dissension in the country. Numerous protesters were reportedly jailed for participating in demonstrations against the administration. As mentioned above, Machado was forced into hiding, while Gonzalez had to flee Venezuela and sought asylum in Spain. Gonzalez claimed he would return to his country on January 10 to be inaugurated as president, but that does not appear to be the case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson met with Gonzalez this week to discuss the political turmoil in Venezuela and recognized Gonzalez as the country&rsquo;s president and leader.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was an honor to meet with the only legitimate leader of Venezuela, Edmundo Gonz&aacute;lez,&rdquo; Johnson said in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mikejohnson.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1519\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">statement<\/a>. &ldquo;We had a productive conversation about the need to restore Venezuela&rsquo;s democratic voice, and the threat the illegitimate Maduro regime poses to the region and all those seeking freedom.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Johnson suggested a pivot in foreign policy with Venezuela and expressed enthusiasm to work with President-elect Trump in supporting &ldquo;democracy in Venezuela.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The United States must return to a maximum-pressure campaign that leaves no recourse but for power to be returned to the Venezuelan people and its legitimate leaders, such as Edmundo Gonz&aacute;lez and Mar&iacute;a Machado,&rdquo; Johnson said. &ldquo;I am eager to begin working with the incoming Trump administration to confront all those who terrorize and intimidate the people of Venezuela, and ensure Congress is ready to support democracy in Venezuela and uphold America&rsquo;s interests in the region.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <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_1931154\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1931154\"}});<\/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>Trump warns Maduro against harming opposition leader Machado<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2388634,"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\/07\/AP24213778214130.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36612,40256,3634,14099,7267],"class_list":["post-2388633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-maduro","tag-opposition-leader","tag-trump","tag-venezuela","tag-warning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24213778214130.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388633","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\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388637,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388633\/revisions\/2388637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}