{"id":2529104,"date":"2026-01-03T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/venezuelans-pour-into-streets-to-celebrate-maduros-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:24:27","slug":"venezuelans-pour-into-streets-to-celebrate-maduros-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/venezuelans-pour-into-streets-to-celebrate-maduros-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelans pour into streets to celebrate Maduro&#8217;s fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvenezuelans-pour-into-streets-to-celebrate-maduros-fall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2529104&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Venezuelans in the capital and Venezuelan expatriates in places like South Florida flooded streets to celebrate after U.S. forces captured President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in a raid.President Trump and senior officials, speaking at Mar-a-Lago, said details of the operation &#8211; which U.S. officials attributed to a Delta Force unit &#8211; showed Maduro and his wife were seized and being escorted to New York to face trial. Footage and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >eyewitness accounts showed jubilant crowds<\/a> in Caracas and large gatherings in Doral, Florida, chanting &#8220;Libertad,&#8221; singing national anthems, and praising the ouster. opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado urged citizens to remain organized for a democratic transition and called for recognition of Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-football-analogy-to-explain-democrats-election-cheating\/\" title=\"A Football Analogy to Explain Democrats&#039; Election Cheating\">legitimate president<\/a>. Reactions were mixed internationally, with some hailing Maduro&#8217;s removal and others accusing the U.S. of illegally breaching international law; Trump said the U.S. would &#8220;run&#8221; Venezuela temporarily to ensure a safe transition and warned of possible further strikes if needed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Venezuelans pour into streets to celebrate Maduro&rsquo;s fall<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2462359\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Pro-democracy residents in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\">Venezuela<\/a> and expats from the country who fled to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/florida\/\">Florida<\/a> are among those celebrating the United States&rsquo;s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Details about the U.S. military&rsquo;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/4400669\/what-is-delta-force-military-unit-behind-the-venezuela-raid\/\">stunning raid <\/a>on Maduro&rsquo;s residence were revealed by President Donald Trump and top officials <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4400184\/watch-live-trump-maduro-mar-a-lago-press-conference\/\">during a press conference <\/a>at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, as Maduro and his wife are escorted to New York to stand trial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4400705\/venezuela-opposition-leader-maria-machado-us-fulfilled-promise\/\">Venezuela opposition leader Maria Machado says US &lsquo;fulfilled its promise&rsquo; after Maduro capture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4400241\/maduro-abduction-coincides-anniversary-noriega-raid\/\">Maduro abduction coincides with anniversary of Noriega raid in Panama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4400612\/world-leaders-react-to-us-attack-in-venezuela\/\">World leaders react to US attack in Venezuela<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4400674\/us-to-run-venezuela-until-transition-can-take-place\/\">US IS &lsquo;GOING TO RUN&rsquo; VENEZUELA &lsquo;UNTIL A PROPER TRANSITION CAN TAKE PLACE&rsquo;: TRUMP<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While a wide range of reactions to the operation included accusations that the U.S. illegally breached international law, many hailed the toppling of Maduro&rsquo;s regime.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is home to the largest Venezuelan population in the U.S. Many of them poured into the streets of Doral and other areas with chants of &ldquo;Libertad&rdquo; on Saturday, singing the U.S. and Venezuelan national anthems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After about 30 years of an abusive government, we can now be happy with the fall of Nicol&aacute;s Maduro,&rdquo; Valeria Morillo, who still has family in Caracas, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/video\/this-means-everything-south-florida-woman-shares-joy-over-maduros-capture\/\">told <\/a>CBS News.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This means everything, since the moment I was born, we lived under an abusive dictatorship,&rdquo; she added.&rdquo;I feel so lucky and privileged to be out in the street, whereas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-biden-to-announce-plan-to-pull-all-us-troops-from-afghanistan-by-september-11\/\" title=\"President Biden To Announce Plan To Pull All US Troops From Afghanistan By September 11\">people back home<\/a> in Caracas are scared for their lives.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4400612\/world-leaders-react-to-us-attack-in-venezuela\/\">WORLD LEADERS REACT TO US ATTACK IN VENEZUELA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not an act of war. It&rsquo;s an act of freedom,&rdquo; another Venezuelan <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DTDjLF7EYZa\/\">said<\/a>, as people carried the country&rsquo;s flag and sang together in the early morning hours on Saturday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Venezuelans celebrate after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo\/Esteban Felix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S., Venezuela opposition leader Mar&iacute;a Corina Machado, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-band-of-lawmakers-discusses-household-supply-chains-at-whitened-house\/\" title=\"Bipartisan band of lawmakers discusses household supply chains at Whitened House\">international allies<\/a> have long considered Maduro to have stolen the 2024 election in his country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the U.S. strikes on Venezuela late Friday night, many residents in the country celebrated Trump&rsquo;s action against Maduro.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Footage circulating on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald ...\">social media<\/a> on Saturday <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnaMariaDiez\/status\/2007410671747788892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2007410671747788892%7Ctwgr%5E90849f5b07509bae41fbccc706265bdf81de9854%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.i24news.tv%2Fen%2Fnews%2Finternational%2Flatin-america%2Fartc-footage-circulating-on-social-media-shows-venezuelans-celebrate-maduro-ouster\">showed thousands <\/a>of Venezuelans in the capital of Caracas jubilantly celebrating the fallen president&rsquo;s capture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wait a minute the MSM media lied to us again? The people of Venezuela actually didn&rsquo;t like being ruled by a narco-terrorist?<\/p>\n<p>World Cup style celebrations are ERUPTING all across Venezuela atm, congratulations to the people of Venezuela! Que Dios te bendiga! &#128591;&#127996; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E2UQ9lh08M\">pic.twitter.com\/E2UQ9lh08M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickshirleyy\/status\/2007485612241367156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Venezuelans, the hour of freedom has arrived,&rdquo; Machado said <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MariaCorinaYA\/status\/2007473689583829046\/photo\/1\">in a statement<\/a> posted to X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today, we are ready to assert our mandate and take power. Let us remain vigilant, active, and organized until the democratic transition is complete. A transition that needs ALL of us,&rdquo; she wrote in a letter addressed to the Venezuelan people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is the hour of the citizens. Those of us who risked everything for democracy on June 28th. Those of us who elected Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the legitimate President of Venezuela, who must immediately assume his constitutional mandate and be recognized as Commander-in-Chief of the National Armed Forces by all the officers and soldiers who comprise it,&rdquo; Machado added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/4400669\/what-is-delta-force-military-unit-behind-the-venezuela-raid\/\">WHAT IS THE DELTA FORCE? THE US MILITARY UNIT BEHIND THE VENEZUELA RAID TOPPLING MADURO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago that U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, are&nbsp;going to &ldquo;run&rdquo; the country until &ldquo;we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.&rdquo; He promised a &ldquo;second wave&rdquo; of &ldquo;much larger&rdquo; attacks on Venezuela &ldquo;if we need to do so.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want peace, liberty, and justice for the great people of Venezuela, and that includes many from Venezuela that are now living in the United States and want to go back to their country as their homeland,&rdquo; the president said. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t take a chance that somebody else takes over Venezuela that doesn&rsquo;t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind &hellip; we don&rsquo;t want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelans cheer as U.S. seizes Maduro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2529105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26003462413795_3f3c5b.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34922,70049,3970,70048,50813],"class_list":["post-2529104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-political-upheaval","tag-protests","tag-street-celebrations","tag-venezuela-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26003462413795_3f3c5b.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2529104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529108,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2529104\/revisions\/2529108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2529105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2529104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2529104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2529104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}