{"id":15510,"date":"2024-02-14T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/white-house-concerned-as-venezuela-detains-activist-over-alleged-white-bracelet-plot-to-kill-maduro\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T00:46:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:46:17","slug":"white-house-concerned-as-venezuela-detains-activist-over-alleged-white-bracelet-plot-to-kill-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/white-house-concerned-as-venezuela-detains-activist-over-alleged-white-bracelet-plot-to-kill-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"White House \u2018concerned\u2019 as Venezuela detains activist over alleged \u2018White Bracelet\u2019 plot to kill Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday that the US government is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d by the arrest of activist and security analyst Rocio San Miguel in Caracas, Venezuela.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThis is a time when Mr. Maduro needs to meet the commitments that he made about how they\u2019re going to treat civil society, political activists and opposition parties \u2026 I won\u2019t go speculating about what happened here and what we might do as a result, but I can tell you we\u2019re watching very closely,\u201d Kirby also said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            On Tuesday, Venezuela\u2019s Attorney General\u00a0Tarek William Saab announced on X that San Miguel had been charged overnight with treason, conspiracy, terrorism and criminal association as part of an investigation into the \u201cWhite Bracelet\u201d plot.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cWhite Bracelet\u201d is the name of an alleged plot to kill President Nicolas Maduro that the Venezuelan government denounced in January, and for which it has presented no evidence.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            San Miguel\u2019s ex-husband Alejandro Gonzales was also charged with revealing military secrets, while four other citizens were released, Saab said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In recent weeks, several civilians and military personnel have been detained as part of the investigation, including at least three members of the opposition political party Vente Venezuela.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            This week, the UN High Commission for Human Rights, the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights and Amnesty International have all expressed concern over San Miguel\u2019s arrest.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            In response to Kirby\u2019s remarks, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil accused the United States of \u201cplotting to murder Maduro, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino and Tachira State Governor Freddy Bernal.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            \u201cThe US government supports terrorists who have confessed their crimes and the orders they received to attack our people. They are complicit in (terrorism) and interventionist actions against Venezuela,\u201d Gil wrote on X.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday that the US government is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d by the arrest of activist and security analyst Rocio San Miguel in Caracas, Venezuela. \u201cThis is a time when Mr. Maduro needs to meet the commitments that he made about how they\u2019re going to treat civil society, political activists <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}