{"id":75885,"date":"2026-01-06T03:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/05\/un-security-council-trump-attack-venezuela"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:57:31","slug":"us-foes-and-allies-denounce-trumps-crime-of-aggression-in-venezuela-at-un-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75885","title":{"rendered":"US foes and allies denounce Trump\u2019s \u2018crime of aggression\u2019 in Venezuela at UN meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US ambassador defends attack as \u2018law enforcement\u2019 action against an \u2018illegitimate\u2019 leader, not an act of war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/03\/putin-russia-us-foreign-policy-venezuela\">The \u2018Putinization\u2019 of US foreign policy has arrived in Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US has faced widespread condemnation for a \u201ccrime of aggression\u201d in Venezuela at an emergency meeting of the United Nations security council.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Eritrea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Spain were among countries that on Monday denounced Donald Trump\u2019s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/04\/tactical-surprise-and-air-dominance-how-the-us-snatched-maduro-in-two-and-a-half-hours\">launch deadly strikes on Venezuela and snatch its leader<\/a>, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to stand trial in the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/05\/un-security-council-trump-attack-venezuela\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US ambassador defends attack as \u2018law enforcement\u2019 action against an \u2018illegitimate\u2019 leader, not an act of warThe \u2018Putinization\u2019 of US foreign policy has arrived in VenezuelaThe US has faced widespread condemnation for a \u201ccrime of aggression\u201d in Venezuel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,50,554,84,45,47,631,748,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-trump-administration","category-united-nations","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-venezuela","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75887,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75885\/revisions\/75887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}