{"id":883,"date":"2026-01-04T07:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/is-there-any-legal-justification-for-the-us-attack-on-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:43:56","slug":"is-there-any-legal-justification-for-the-us-attack-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/is-there-any-legal-justification-for-the-us-attack-on-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there any legal justification for the US attack on Venezuela?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushbackUS attacks Venezuela \u2013 live updatesDonald Trump said on Saturday morning that US troops had carried out a \u201clarge-scale strike\u201d on Venezuela and captured its president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The couple has now been indicted in New York on terrorism and drugs charges. Trump has accused Maduro of running a \u201cnarco terrorist organisation\u201d.However, the legality of the operation has been called into question \u2013 with even some of Trump\u2019s allies suggesting it violated international law. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International law experts expect Washington to claim self-defence and face little serious pushbackUS attacks Venezuela \u2013 live updatesDonald Trump said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}