"Revelers chanted "liberty" and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the American military attack that toppled Nicolás Maduro's government - a stunning outcome they had longed for but left them wondering what comes next in their troubled homeland. People gathered for a rally in Doral, Florida - the Miami suburb where President Donald Trump has a golf resort and where roughly half the population is of Venezuelan descent - as word spread that Venezuela's president had been captured and flown out of the country."
"Outside the El Arepazo restaurant, a hub of the Venezuelan culture of Doral, one man held a piece of cardboard with "Libertad" 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 "Liberty! Liberty! Liberty!" "We're like everybody - it's a combination of feelings, of course," said Alejandra Arrieta, who came to the U.S. in 1997. "There's fears. There's excitement. There's so many years that we've been waiting for this. Something had to happen in Venezuela. We all need the freedom.""
"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's behavioral habits. About 8 million people have fled Venezuela since 2014, settling first in neighboring countries in Latin America and the Caribbean."
Revelers chanted "liberty" and draped Venezuelan flags in South Florida to celebrate an American military attack that toppled Nicolás Maduro's government. People gathered in Doral, a Miami suburb with a large Venezuelan population, after word spread that Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country. Attendees held signs reading "Libertad" and chanted "Liberty," expressing mixed feelings of fear, excitement and long-awaited hope for freedom. The U.S. government was asserted to be running the country at least temporarily. About 8 million people have fled Venezuela since 2014, initially settling in neighboring Latin American and Caribbean countries before seeking entry to the United States.
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