{"id":6441,"date":"2025-01-13T20:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:51:34","slug":"venezuelas-consulate-in-lisbon-targeted-with-explosive-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2025\/01\/13\/venezuelas-consulate-in-lisbon-targeted-with-explosive-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela’s consulate in Lisbon targeted with explosive device"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/12\/venezuelas-consulate-in-lisbon-targeted-with-explosive-device<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, January 11th at about 10pm, a molotov cocktail was thrown at the wall of the consulate of Venezuela building by an unidentified person. No one was injured. Lisbon is reporting that it was more of a symbolic act as the bomb was directed at the building and not a specific person. This is following the disputed election of Nicolas Maduro, who has already faced allegations of faking the election, is facing a lot of international criticism right now as there is no evidence of his winning the past election in Venezuela in July. Both Maduro and the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign affairs criticized the attack, Portugal promising more security for the consulate building.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not much can be said about the outcome of this attack and the implications it has for relations between Portugal and Venezuela as the individual has not been identified and thus neither has the nationality of the person who threw the bomb. Should it be a Venezuelan, though probably not, this has an internal message and won\u2019t really affect relations. Should the bomber, however, be identified as Portuguese then it could loosen ties between the countries and send Venezuela into even more isolation, as Maduro has been isolating Venezuela a bit, for example closing the border with Colombia and Brazil. I feel like Portugal actually plays a pretty small role in this event, as it is only the place and the identity of the bomber isn\u2019t known right now. It also isn\u2019t one of Venezuela\u2019s big allies like Iran, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, or China so it wouldn’t be a big betrayal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The international criticism that Maduro and Venezuela faces will lead to Venezuela having a more isolationist outlook in terms of foreign affairs. Especially if the bomber ends up being Portuguese, then in the interest of security for Venezuela Maduro will want to keep it isolated. Though, it is also likely events like this will start to take place more within Venezuela. Maduro seems to have a strong grasp on power right now, but with enough force he could be removed and under valid circumstances. Though like the UN and Haiti someone might try to take an interventionist approach to Venezuela, especially possible an organization of the Western World, as countries like the US and some EU countries preach freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/12\/venezuelas-consulate-in-lisbon-targeted-with-explosive-device Saturday, January 11th at about 10pm, a molotov cocktail was thrown at the wall of the consulate of Venezuela building by an unidentified person. No one was injured. Lisbon is reporting that it was more of a symbolic act as the bomb was directed at the building and not a specific person. This is following the disputed election of… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}