{"id":17245,"date":"2025-12-20T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=17245"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:30:30","slug":"rubio-the-u-s-does-not-recognize-nicolas-maduros-government-as-legitimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/12\/20\/rubio-the-u-s-does-not-recognize-nicolas-maduros-government-as-legitimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio: The U.S. does not recognize Nicol\u00e1s Maduro&#8217;s government as &#8220;legitimate&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, has stated that Washington does not consider the Venezuelan government led by Nicol\u00e1s Maduro to be &#8220;legitimate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anadolu Agency reported that Rubio made the remarks during a recent press conference on Friday night, emphasizing that the current situation in Venezuela is &#8220;intolerable&#8221; for the United States, which seeks to change it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added, &#8220;The current situation, where they work and collaborate with terrorist organizations against U.S. national interests, involves not just collaboration but partnerships in activities that threaten U.S. national interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding Russia&#8217;s role in Venezuela, the senior U.S. diplomat noted that Washington is not concerned about escalating tensions with Moscow concerning Caracas, as the Kremlin is sufficiently preoccupied with Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rubio\u2019s comments come as the U.S. has been reinforcing its presence in the Caribbean, surrounding Venezuela with thousands of troops, ships, and warplanes in recent weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, Russia and China have expressed solidarity and full support for the Venezuelan government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Marco Rubio, the U.S. Secretary of State, has stated that Washington does not consider the Venezuelan government led by Nicol\u00e1s Maduro to be &#8220;legitimate.&#8221; Anadolu Agency reported that Rubio made the remarks during a recent press conference on Friday night, emphasizing that the current situation in Venezuela is &#8220;intolerable&#8221; for the United States, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17247,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17245\/revisions\/17247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}