"I waited for this moment for so long from within Venezuela, and now that I'm out, it's like watching a movie,"
"It's like a jolt of relief."
Messages spread during a dinner in Los Angeles that the U.S. was invading Venezuela and would seize President Nicolás Maduro. Maria Eugenia Torres Ramirez, a 38-year-old who fled Venezuela in 2021 and has a pending asylum application, felt elation and joined family across continents for a four-hour call after news of Maduro's capture. Many Venezuelans in the U.S. celebrated the military action. Economic collapse and political repression drove roughly 8 million Venezuelans to emigrate since 2014, with about 770,000 living in the U.S. as of 2023 and concentrations in Miami, Orlando, Houston, and New York; Los Angeles hosts just over 9,500. In Doral residents demonstrated joy; in Los Angeles, roughly 40 people protested Maduro's arrest, with groups not identifying as Venezuelan.
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