{"id":5472,"date":"2026-01-05T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:03:36","slug":"the-correct-word-is-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2026\/01\/05\/the-correct-word-is-kidnapped\/","title":{"rendered":"The Correct Word is Kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AP reference to “Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro” and TorStar’s to “Venezuela’s ousted leader Maduro” are both incorrect. There is as yet no indication that the acting president (who is currently assuming his role while he is constrained from performing it directly) has any intention of supplanting him, or that anyone else has taken control, or that any institution within the country has revised its position on his status. So he has been neither “deposed” (which usually means replaced by some other authority that does not recognize his status) nor “ousted” (which implies being pushed out rather than extracted by some external agency).<\/p>\n

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So the correct word is still “abducted” or perhaps even “kidnapped”.<\/p>\n

Source: The Latest: Maduro pleads not guilty in US court appearance<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The AP reference to “Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro” and TorStar’s to “Venezuela’s ousted leader Maduro” are both incorrect. There is as yet no indication that the acting president (who is currently assuming his role while he is constrained from … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}