{"id":266481,"date":"2026-01-04T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266481\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:18:09","slug":"he-was-looking-for-trouble-venezuelan-man-in-ireland-reacts-after-us-overthrows-nicolas-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/266481\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He was looking for trouble\u2019 \u2013 Venezuelan man in Ireland reacts after US overthrows Nicolas Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dictator was reportedly taken from his bed in the middle of the night as US forces conducted strikes on the capital Caracas\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reinaldo Istanboulie from Venezuela has been living in Ireland for seven years\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/7f460713-f9c3-4a6d-a938-eac1da0b3a0c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Reinaldo Istanboulie from Venezuela has been living in Ireland for seven years<\/p>\n<p>Keith Kelly and Niamh Horan<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Venezuelan man in Ireland has said his family is in \u201cdisbelief\u201d that the country\u2019s autocrat president, Nicolas Maduro, was captured by US forces after strikes on the capital Caracas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It came as the Irish Government issued a muted response to the extraordinary military action by one of its closest international partners, while an Irish energy industry source warned the crisis could lead to a spike in fuel prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dictator was reportedly taken from his bed in the middle of the night as US forces conducted strikes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,14370,9171,11,12,15,16,5,30657,18578,7,8,1543,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-266481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-helen-mcentee","15":"tag-labour-party","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-people-before-profit","22":"tag-social-democrats","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news","28":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115835850244994907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}