{"id":210799,"date":"2025-11-19T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=210799"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:51:02","slug":"trump-approves-cia-plans-for-covert-operations-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/210799\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump approves CIA plans for covert operations in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>U.S. President Donald Trump has approved CIA plans to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/18\/us\/politics\/trump-covert-action-venezuela.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> reports, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump approved programs that could be aimed at preparing the battlefield for future actions,&rdquo; the outlet writes.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the United States has also held secret negotiations with representatives of the Latin American country, discussing the fate of Nicol&aacute;s Maduro and Washington&rsquo;s access to the country&rsquo;s oil.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Trump stated that he does not rule out any options regarding Venezuela. CNN reported that, after unsuccessful attempts last month to advance negotiations, the U.S. president ordered a halt to contacts with Maduro and his inner circle, frustrated by the latter&rsquo;s unwillingness to resign voluntarily.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump has approved CIA plans to conduct covert operations in Venezuela, The New York Times reports, citing sources. &ldquo;Trump approved programs that could be aimed at preparing the battlefield for future actions,&rdquo; the outlet writes. According to the report, the United States has also held secret negotiations with representatives of the Latin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":210767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210800,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210799\/revisions\/210800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}