"Clavel Rangel was in Miami with a friend when they heard the news. The United States had launched a strike on Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. U.S. officials said the couple would be taken to New York to face criminal charges. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would the country on the northern coast of South America. The White House called it a "remarkable f oreign policy trium ph.""
"But for Rangel, an exiled journalist from Venezuela and Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, a degree of fear came with the stunning news. Both she and her friend - also Venezuelan - still have family there. They began working immediately, reaching out to sources in the country to make sense of the situation. For U.S. newsrooms, Maduro's capture is a dramatic foreign policy story. For Venezuelan journalists, it's far more complicated."
"As American outlets work to explain what comes next, many of the journalists with the deepest knowledge of Venezuela are hesitant to speak publicly, fearful of reprisal, skeptical or superficial coverage and unsure whether U.S. media can fully capture the country's legal and political complexity."
U.S. forces struck Venezuela, seized President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, and intended to move them to New York on criminal charges. The White House hailed the action as a notable foreign policy triumph, while many Venezuelans reacted with both celebrations and denunciations framing the move as U.S. imperialism. Maduro pleaded not guilty to charges tied to international drug trafficking and weapons offenses. Exiled Venezuelan journalists experienced fear for family back home and scrambled to verify information. Journalists face challenges covering the event accurately, and many knowledgeable Venezuelan reporters are reluctant to speak publicly due to safety and complexity concerns.
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