{"id":1339867,"date":"2026-01-03T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/trump-ordered-an-attack-on-venezuela-media\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:13:24","slug":"trump-ordered-an-attack-on-venezuela-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/trump-ordered-an-attack-on-venezuela-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ordered an attack on Venezuela \u2013 media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>US President Donald Trump ordered strikes on targets inside Venezuela on Saturday, January 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JenniferJJacobs\/status\/2007347677714059321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported by<\/a> CBS News journalist Jennifer Jacobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;President Trump has ordered strikes on targets inside Venezuela, including military installations, U.S. officials said, as the administration stepped up its campaign against the regime of President Nicolas Maduro early Saturday,&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before that, she said that Trump administration officials were aware of reports of explosions and aircraft flying over the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, early this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no official comments at this time.As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/loud-noises-heard-venezuela-capital-southern-area-without-electricity-2026-01-03\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a> previously reported, explosions were heard in the Venezuelan capital Caracas on Saturday morning. The southern part of the city, where a large military base is located, remained without electricity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/01\/03\/americas\/venezuela-explosions-intl-hnk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CNN<\/a> reported several explosions. Several areas of the city were without power, and media reporters could hear the sound of planes after the explosions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colombian President Gustavo Petro wrote on social media that Caracas was being &#8220;bombarded with missiles,&#8221; without naming who.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p data-start=\"894\" data-end=\"991\">Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump ordered strikes on targets inside Venezuela on Saturday, January 3. This was reported by CBS News journalist Jennifer Jacobs. &#8220;President Trump has ordered strikes on targets inside Venezuela, including military installations, U.S. officials said, as the administration stepped up its campaign against the regime of President Nicolas Maduro early Saturday,&#8221; she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1302583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1339867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339868,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339867\/revisions\/1339868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}