{"id":2529485,"date":"2026-01-04T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/venezuelan-americans-break-out-into-celebration-over-maduro-capture\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:06:23","slug":"venezuelan-americans-break-out-into-celebration-over-maduro-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/venezuelan-americans-break-out-into-celebration-over-maduro-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan Americans Break Out Into Celebration Over Maduro Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fvenezuelan-americans-break-out-into-celebration-over-maduro-capture%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=2529485&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>In Doral, Florida, large crowds of Venezuelan expatriates celebrated after reports that U.S. forces had captured and removed President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, chanting &#8220;liberty&#8221; and waving Venezuelan flags while expressing a mix of excitement and apprehension about their country&#8217;s future. The article describes Doral&#8217;s diverse venezuelan community-professionals, entrepreneurs, recent lower-income arrivals, naturalized citizens, and undocumented residents-and notes that about 8 million people have fled Venezuela as 2014.President Trump saeid the U.S.woudl run Venezuela at least temporarily, framing the operation as the culmination of a pressure campaign. Immigrants quoted in the piece, including activists like Niurka Mel\u00e9ndez, voiced hope that Maduro&#8217;s ouster could open the door to justice, humanitarian aid, and rebuilding institutions, while acknowledging uncertainty and the need for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-casts-doubt-on-chinese-claims-of-growing-support-for-human-rights-record\/\" title=\"U.N. Casts Doubt on Chinese Claims of Growing Support for Human Rights Record\">international support<\/a>. The Western Journal adds a notice that it did not review the Associated press story prior to publication.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?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<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>DORAL, Florida (AP) &mdash; Revelers chanted &ldquo;liberty&rdquo; and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the American military attack that toppled Nicol&aacute;s Maduro&rsquo;s government &mdash; a stunning outcome they had longed for but left them wondering what comes next in their troubled homeland.<\/p>\n<p>People gathered for a rally in Doral, Florida &mdash; the Miami suburb where President Donald Trump has a golf resort and where roughly half the population is of Venezuelan descent &mdash; as word spread that Venezuela&rsquo;s president had been captured and flown out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the El Arepazo restaurant, a hub of the Venezuelan culture of Doral, one man held a piece of cardboard with &ldquo;Libertad&rdquo; scrawled with a black marker. It was a sentiment expressed by other native Venezuelans hoping for a new beginning for their home country as they chanted &ldquo;Liberty! Liberty! Liberty!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re like everybody &mdash; it&rsquo;s a combination of feelings, of course,&rdquo; Alejandra Arrieta, who came to the U.S. in 1997, said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s fears. There&rsquo;s excitement. There&rsquo;s so many years that we&rsquo;ve been waiting for this. Something had to happen in Venezuela. We all need the freedom.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump insisted Saturday that the U.S. government would run the country at least temporarily and was already doing so. The action marked the culmination of an escalating Trump administration pressure campaign on the oil-rich South American nation as well as weeks of planning that tracked Maduro&rsquo;s behavioral habits.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>About 8 million people have fled Venezuela since 2014, settling first in neighboring countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. After COVID, they increasingly set their sights on the United States, walking through the jungle in Colombia and Panama across the southern border, or flying to the U.S. on humanitarian parole with a financial sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>In Doral, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >upper-middle-class professionals<\/a> and entrepreneurs came to invest in property and businesses when socialist Hugo Ch&aacute;vez won the presidency in the late 1990s. They were followed by political opponents and entrepreneurs who set up small businesses. In recent years, more lower-income Venezuelans have arrived in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>They are doctors, lawyers, beauticians, construction workers, and house cleaners. Some are naturalized U.S. citizens or live in the country illegally with American-born children. Others overstay tourist visas, seek asylum, or have some form of temporary status.<\/p>\n<p>Niurka Mel&eacute;ndez, who fled her native Venezuela in 2015, said Saturday she&rsquo;s hopeful that Maduro&rsquo;s ouster will improve life in her homeland. Mel&eacute;ndez immigrated to New York City, where she co-founded Venezuelans and Immigrants Aid, a group striving to empower the lives of immigrants. She became a steadfast advocate for change in her home country, where she said her countrymen were &ldquo;facing a humanitarian crisis.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She hopes those hardships will end as a result of American intervention.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For us, it&rsquo;s just the start of the justice we need to see,&rdquo; Mel&eacute;ndez said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>Her homeland had reached a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/london-breeds-asian-american-approval-soars-as-she-cracks-down-on-crime-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"London Breed\u2019s Asian American approval soars as she cracks down on crime - Washington Examiner\">breaking point&#038;rdquo<\/a>; due to forced displacements, repression, hunger, and fear, she said. She called for international humanitarian support to help in Venezuela&rsquo;s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Removing an authoritarian system responsible for these crimes creates the possibility, not a guarantee, but a possibility, for recovery,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;A future without criminal control over institutions is the minimum condition for rebuilding a country based on justice, rule of law, and democratic safeguards.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><em>Schreiner reported from Shelbyville, Kentucky.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Western Journal has not reviewed this Associated Press story prior to publication. Therefore, it may contain editorial bias or may in some other way not meet our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harrison-ford-announces-end-of-iconic-character-i-need-to-sit-down-and-rest-a-little-bit\/\" title=\"Harrison Ford retires iconic character, needs rest.\">normal editorial standards<\/a>. 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