{"id":676538,"date":"2026-01-06T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676538\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:24:22","slug":"venezuela-latest-nicolas-maduro-tells-us-court-i-am-still-president-as-he-pleads-not-guilty-to-drugs-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676538\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela latest: Nicol\u00e1s Maduro tells US court ‘I am still president’ as he pleads not guilty to drugs charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House’s Stephen Miller: The US is in chargepublished at 23:12 GMT 5 January<\/p>\n

23:12 GMT 5 January<\/p>\n

\"StephenImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, insists that the US is running Venezuela despite the swearing in of Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez after the capture of Nicolas Maduro. <\/p>\n

Appearing on CNN on Monday, Miller says the US wants an interim government “that will respect the interests of the people of Venezuela” and a government that wants “a good, peaceful, secure future for Venezuela”.<\/p>\n

He adds that “the best decision they can make is to <\/b>cooperate fully and completely with the United States”.<\/p>\n

Miller, who is also the White House’s homeland security adviser, reiterates Trump’s remarks over the weekend that the US will “run” the country.<\/p>\n

He says the “US is in charge” and also will “set the terms and conditions” there, including a “complete embargo on all of their oil and their ability to do commerce.”<\/p>\n

“The United States is using its military to secure our interest unapologetically in our hemisphere. We’re a superpower, and under President Trump, we are going to conduct ourselves as a superpower,” Miller says.<\/p>\n

“It is absurd that we would allow a nation in our own backyard to become the supplier of resources to our adversaries, but not to us,” he also says.<\/p>\n

During the interview, he turns from Venezuela and says his country “should have Greenland as part of the United States”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House’s Stephen Miller: The US is in chargepublished at 23:12 GMT 5 January 23:12 GMT 5 January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-676538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115845310940927287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}