{"id":5813,"date":"2026-01-05T20:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/5813\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:56:13","slug":"maduros-kidnapping-by-us-is-modern-day-imperialism-spokeswoman-of-south-africas-largest-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/5813\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro&#8217;s kidnapping by US is &#8216;modern day imperialism&#8217; \u2013 spokeswoman of South Africa&#8217;s largest union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" width=\"460\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/695c0af0203027268163a244.jpg\" class=\"attachment-wt450_250 size-wt450_250 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>                  <\/p>\n<p>FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump holds a press conference following the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nikolas Maduro. \u00a9\u00a0                Global Look Press \/ Hu Yousong<\/p>\n<p>If Washington is allowed to get away with what it did in Venezuela, it will go after other nations, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola has warned            FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump holds a press conference following the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nikolas Maduro. \u00a9                 Global Look Press \/ Hu Yousong<\/p>\n<p>The US military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is a manifestation of modern imperialism and \u201cnaked colonialism,\u201d according to Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, a spokeswoman for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the biggest trade union in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Washington must be stopped before it turns its gaze to other nations, she told RT on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very obvious that this has absolutely nothing to do with democracy,\u201d Hlubi-Majola said. US President Donald Trump had openly \u201csaid that the United States government will be \u2018running Venezuela\u2019, which tells you that this is just modern-day imperialism and their only interest is the seizure of Venezuela\u2019s oil,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Trump is allowed to get away with this by forcibly taking over Venezuela, he will then move on and take and forcibly take over other countries,\u201d the spokeswoman warned.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview here:<\/p>\n<p>            .mediaplayer {                min-height: 150px;            }            .jwplayer .jw-controls .jw-controlbar .jw-icon-cc {                display: none;            }        <\/p>\n<p>        .media__video_noscript {            position: absolute;            top: 0;            left: 0;            right: 0;            bottom: 0;            height: 100%;            width: 100%;        }        .full_transcript_text {            display: block;        }    <\/p>\n<p>Az\u0259rbaycan24 sosial \u015f\u0259b\u0259k\u0259l\u0259rd\u0259 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump holds a press conference following the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nikolas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,131,461,4403,2679,742],"class_list":{"0":"post-5813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-south-africa","10":"tag-the","11":"tag-trump","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}