{"id":17275,"date":"2026-01-02T09:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maduro-open-to-talks-with-us-on-drug-trafficking-and-oil-dodges-on-cia-drone-strike\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:21:22","slug":"maduro-open-to-talks-with-us-on-drug-trafficking-and-oil-dodges-on-cia-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maduro-open-to-talks-with-us-on-drug-trafficking-and-oil-dodges-on-cia-drone-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro open to talks with US on drug trafficking and oil, dodges on CIA drone strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicol&aacute;s Maduro says he is open to holding talks with the Trump administration over drug trafficking and the country&rsquo;s oil reserves, but he dodged when asked about the CIA&rsquo;s recent drone strike inside his South American nation.&nbsp; &ldquo;The U.S. government knows, because we&rsquo;ve told many of their spokespeople&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5669450-maduro-venezuela-cia-strike\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan President Nicol&aacute;s Maduro says he is open to holding talks with the Trump administration over drug trafficking and the country&rsquo;s oil reserves, but he dodged when asked about the CIA&rsquo;s recent drone strike inside his South American nation.&nbsp; &ldquo;The U.S. government knows, because we&rsquo;ve told many of their spokespeople&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}