{"id":9609,"date":"2026-01-09T23:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=9609"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:02:08","slug":"medvedev-calls-maduros-kidnapping-a-universal-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/medvedev-calls-maduros-kidnapping-a-universal-catastrophe-09012026\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev calls Maduro\u2019s kidnapping a universal catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The former president and head of the ruling United Russia party wrote this Friday on his Telegram channel that, \u201cthe year began tumultuously, and above all, its beginning will be remembered for Maduro\u2019s kidnapping.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medvedev stated that, \u201cof course, this is rude and repugnant, or, to put it more eloquently, a universal catastrophe in international relations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also suggested that the United States will either \u201clet go\u201d of the Venezuelan leader or \u201cbecome a new Latin American Mandela.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He believes that Maduro\u2019s name could go down in South American history alongside Bolivar and Chavez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Medvedev also believes the situation in Venezuela will worsen if the country\u2019s authorities refuse to share oil with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further expressed doubts about the necessity of a ground operation for the current US administration, noting that the Senate has already limited President Donald Trump\u2019s options and that such an operation \u201cwould be far bloodier than kidnapping Maduro.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former president and head of the ruling United Russia party wrote this Friday on his Telegram channel that, &ldquo;the year began tumultuously, and above all, its beginning will be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[43],"class_list":["post-9609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":43,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"prensa-latina","display_name":"Prensa Latina","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9611,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9609\/revisions\/9611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9609"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}