{"id":88696,"date":"2026-01-04T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:24:07","slug":"i-cant-sleep-venezuelan-in-soundview-worried-for-loved-ones-after-u-s-military-capture-of-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/88696\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I can&#8217;t sleep.&#8217; Venezuelan in Soundview worried for loved ones after U.S. military capture of Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Venezuelan who lives in Soundview says she is worried for her family back in her native homeland after the U.S. military capture of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Grullon has worked at the Venezuelan restaurant Cachapa Cachapa for eight years. She clocked into work Saturday night to prepare native dishes with a new meaning and purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m eating something that really reminds me of my country, my land, my home,&#8221; Grullon said.<\/p>\n<p>Following the arrest of Maduro, Grullon told News 12 she was up all day speaking with her two sisters who still live in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My sister called me around 1:30 in the morning to tell me she was hearing bombs going off, that things were exploding and things were falling from the sky,&#8221; Grullon said.<\/p>\n<p>The WhatsApp messages between the sisters in Spanish show Grullon&#8217;s sister worried for her children. The 55-year-old said she could not think of any other comforting words, only left to respond, &#8220;everything will be OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After being up all day, Grullon said she could not imagine going to sleep calmly until she knows her sisters and other Venezuelans back home will be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Venezuelan who lives in Soundview says she is worried for her family back in her native homeland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,153,9,24,63,896,129,131,130,655,20041,7318,42400],"class_list":["post-88696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-trump-administration","tag-trump-adminstration","tag-venezuela","tag-venezuelans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}