{"id":207602,"date":"2026-01-31T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207602"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:24:38","slug":"the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207602","title":{"rendered":"The Capture of Maduro Marks the Return of Hard Power Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The season of peace on earth and goodwill to all men did not last long, and while I\u2019ll shed no tears at seeing a corrupt dictator snatched from his lair, it\u2019s fair to say that 2026 is off to an uneasy start. The market response to Donald Trump\u2019s audacious swoop on Venezuela has been predictably muscular&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oilprice.com\/Geopolitics\/North-America\/The-Capture-of-Maduro-Marks-the-Return-of-Hard-Power-Politics.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season of peace on earth and goodwill to all men did not last long,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics.jpg",718,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics-300x125.jpg",300,125,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics.jpg",640,267,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics.jpg",640,267,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics.jpg",718,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics.jpg",718,300,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207602-the-capture-of-maduro-marks-the-return-of-hard-power-politics-590x300.jpg",590,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}