{"id":258014,"date":"2024-03-17T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=258014"},"modified":"2024-03-17T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T03:30:41","slug":"venezuela-pres-maduro-accepts-presidential-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=258014","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Pres Maduro accepts presidential candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/YT7NFJ53DBKCXISFYDAYYFZ3SI.jpg\" alt=\"Venezuela's Maduro to run in presidential elections set for July\"\/><figcaption>President Nicolas Maduro waves a Ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) flag in front of supporters after he accepted candidacy in July 28 election<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CARACAS, March 17 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday accepted his candidacy for presidency in the July 28 election during the National Congress of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If you support me, &#8230; we will triumph again, through the path of truth, through the path of renewed hope,&#8221; Maduro said at the event held in the capital of Caracas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro highlighted the achievements made during his presidential administration, such as &#8220;sustained economic growth, recovery&#8221; and the consolidation of &#8220;social peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president said &#8220;economic growth will exceed 8 percent&#8221; this year, as a demonstration of the country&#8217;s progress with &#8220;self effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maduro noted that his aim would be to rebuild and restore the social welfare state left by former President Hugo Chavez but &#8220;hurt&#8221; by U.S. sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unclear who will be the standard-bearers for Venezuela&#8217;s opposition in the upcoming presidential election.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, March 17 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday accepted his candidacy for presidency in the July 28 election during the National Congress of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela. &#8220;If you support me, &#8230; we will triumph again, through the path of truth, through the path of renewed hope,&#8221; Maduro said [&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\/258014"}],"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=258014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258015,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258014\/revisions\/258015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}