Venezuelan immigrants in the U.S.<\/a>, Doral quickly became the scene of jubilant celebrations, with scores of people clad in yellow, blue, and red \u2014 the national flag\u2019s colors \u2014 some draped in the flag itself. But not everyone was in a celebratory mood about the U.S. military intervening in another nation\u2019s political landscape.<\/p>\nThe split was evident in a social media post over the weekend. Nearly 1,000 commenters joined the discussion, offering disparate views of the action.<\/p>\n
One Redditor asked Venezuelan-Americans\u2019 opinions on the matter, writing, \u201cNow that Donal Tron officially attacked Caracas I\u2019m so curious to hear the side of Venezuelan-Americans from Miami on this and your justification if you have one.\u201d<\/p>\n
One commenter wrote, \u201cI\u2019m married to a Colombian and she has family in Venezuela. They are ALL happy. Does that make them bad people? Nope.\u201d<\/p>\n
One user, who is married to a Venezuelan woman, says this is the happiest she\u2019s been since their daughter\u2019s birth, writing, \u201cHer family calling us at 4 a.m. from the country celebrating as well, but they need to take out the rest of cabinet. Maduro was just a puppet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many users agreed, with many commenters celebrating the apparent end of Maduro\u2019s authoritarian rule, while recognizing it as a double-edged sword.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re happy because they\u2019re getting rid of a nightmare but at the same time why are Americans even involved, right?\u201d a user wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cVenezuelan here. I don\u2019t like Trump and I don\u2019t like war and I hate that this is happening BUT let us Venezuelans be happy about this, this regime has been in power for over 26 years stealing elections and killing us every time we went out to protest that they stole said elections,\u201d another user wrote. \u201cLet us be happy that there will probably finally be a change of regime in Venezuela, WHATEVER comes is better than Maduro and his cupule, you guys simply don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the comment that seemed to resonate the most with the Miami Reddit community, garnering the most upvotes, came from someone who admits they aren\u2019t Venezuelan. <\/p>\n
\u201cMost Venezuelans I know, and I know a lot of them, are happy about it,\u201d they wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone in the world hates their government as much as Venezuelans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many weren\u2019t as thrilled about the action, with users pointing out how military interventions have gone in other countries. Commenters argued the intervention was motivated more by Venezuela\u2019s vast oil and gold resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a person born in the DR Congo I can tell you that I can always get worse \u2026 way, way worse \u2026 and never get better,\u201d one user wrote. \u201cThe U.S. will keep you poor and milk you dry and install a puppet dictator that will have a cult of personality. He will then end up getting overthrown after he has served his purpose and be replaced by another greedy asshat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean it\u2019s not like they have not done this before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another concerned user wrote, \u201cI\u2019m Venezuelan. I hate Maduro (and dictators in general). But I\u2019m mostly worried of what can happen in the future, U.S. interventionism has hurt severely many countries in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the Venezuelans that are cheering this, and it sounds like that\u2019s most of you, are you willing to enlist and serve in the U.S. forces (army, marines, etc) that are going to have to occupy and pacify Venezuela until a new government is set up? And will almost certainly need to stay for years afterwards to help prop it up?\u201d another user asked. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to troll here, but it\u2019s REALLY easy to write online about your support, but as we learned in Iraq, \u2018You break it, you buy it.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cMany people in Iraq also cheered when U.S. forces rolled into Baghdad, but that goodwill usually only lasts so long. And it became an utter shit show before long.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crowd sang the Venezuelan national anthem. Photo by Michele Eve Sandberg While the capture of Venezuelan President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2161,225,227,226,1841,2908],"class_list":{"0":"post-106788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-hialeah","10":"tag-hialeah-headlines","11":"tag-hialeah-news","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-national-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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