{"id":15792,"date":"2019-03-23T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T07:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15792"},"modified":"2019-03-23T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T07:02:19","slug":"u-s-cautions-venezuela-over-detained-citgo-workers-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=15792","title":{"rendered":"U.S. cautions Venezuela over detained Citgo workers, others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Trump administration on Friday warned the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro over the detention of Americans, including six executives from Houston-based oil company Citgo Petroleum who have been jailed since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will hold Maduro and his prison officials to account for their safety and well-being,&#8221; the U.S. State Department said in a statement, adding that the Citgo employees include five individuals with dual U.S. citizenship and one U.S. legal permanent resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States is concerned about reports of prison officials preventing attorneys and families of detained U.S. citizens from delivering food and denying communication, the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Department statement came a day after U.S. Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn called on Maduro to release the six Citgo executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Venezuelan government is battling over Citgo with a group led by opposition leader Juan Guaido, which has appointed its own board to run Citgo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guaido invoked the constitution to assume the interim presidency in January, saying Maduro\u2019s re-election was not legitimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Western countries have backed Guaido, while Maduro has denounced him as a U.S. puppet who is seeking to foment a coup. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, March 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Trump administration on Friday warned the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro over the detention of Americans, including six executives from Houston-based oil company Citgo Petroleum who have been jailed since 2017. &#8220;We will hold Maduro and his prison officials to account for their safety and well-being,&#8221; the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}