US EditionVoices of the Venezuelan Diaspora After Maduro’s Ouster: How Millions Live Abroad as They Wonder if It’s Time to Return
U.S. intervention captures President Maduro, imprisoning him in New York, amid motives to seize oil and weaken Cuba, following strikes that killed 115 people by December 2025.
- On January 3, President Donald Trump announced that Nicolás Maduro, President of Venezuela, and Cilia Flores were captured in a U.S. military operation; Maduro is held at the Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, facing narco-terrorism charges.
- Reports show the administration intercepted oil shipments and U.S. naval and interdiction forces staged buildups, ran covert operators inside Venezuela, and launched air strikes ahead of the capture.
- By late December, strikes near Venezuela had killed 115 people, nearly 8 million Venezuelans left between 2014 and 2025, and a Caracas firm Meganálisis survey showed over 90% support for Trump's ouster.
- On January 8, Jorge Rodríguez announced releasing a significant number of detainees as Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assumed acting presidency, prompting celebrations and uncertainty among the Venezuelan diaspora with over 140 freed but more than 700 still detained.
- With Trump saying the U.S. could run Venezuela 'for years,' analysts warn restoring oil output requires 'tens of billions of dollars' and years, risking regional destabilization and costly regime-change fallout.
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Voices of the Venezuelan diaspora after Maduro’s ouster: How millions live abroad as they wonder if it’s time to return
The capture of Venezuela’s president was initially celebrated by some members of the Venezuelan diaspora in different countries, but later caused uncertainty on two fronts: the appointment of Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as acting president and the Trump administration’s plans for the South American country.
White House Aims for Cuba Regime Change by Year-End
(ZeroHedge)—Brimming with bravado after snatching Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a lightning raid on Caracas earlier this month, the Trump administration has now set a goal to end Communism in Cuba by the end of the year, according to sources who talked to the Wall Street Journal. Using the Venezuela operation as a blueprint, the White House is working to identify people inside the Cuban government who could be ripe for making a deal in …
Panama woke up that day with the strange feeling of looking in a mirror. During the first hours of January 3, while the world was trying to assimilate the details of the capture of Nicolás Maduro as a result of a military operation by the United States, the Canal country was once again digging into a wound that, 36 years later, is still open: the 1989 U.S. invasion.
After Maduro’s fall, Venezuelans in the US face uncertainty
Following US President Donald Trump's swift invasion and coup of then-Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on 3 January, crowds of exiles around the world celebrated in the streets. The United States has one of the world's largest Venezuelan communities at over a million, most of whom have migrated in the last decade, fleeing political instability and a deteriorating economy. Like many diasporas, Venezuelans are working to manage their lives in the …
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