{"id":110110,"date":"2026-01-04T04:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110110\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:27:12","slug":"lubbock-woman-from-venezuela-celebrating-maduros-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/110110\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock woman from Venezuela celebrating Maduro\u2019s capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With Nicolas Maduro out of power, many Venezuelans are left with questions and uncertainties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Concetta Di Silvestre was born in Valencia, Venezuela and moved to the U.S. eleven years ago. She has been a resident of Lubbock for the last year and a half. She says when she first heard the news of Maduro\u2019s capture, she could not believe it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">To read more from Di Silvestre in Spanish, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telemundolubbock.com\/2026\/01\/03\/venezolana-en-lubbock-reacciona-con-esperanza-tras-salida-de-maduro-del-poder\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.telemundolubbock.com\/2026\/01\/03\/venezolana-en-lubbock-reacciona-con-esperanza-tras-salida-de-maduro-del-poder\/\">click here for our report from Telemundo Lubbock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOne of the first messages I received was from my sister in law saying, they took my president, so I was confused, and then I decided to call my mom and told her, hey what is going on, so she said oh my God I have been calling you, and they took maduro and his wife cecilia flores, and I said what do you mean, and she said, yes, they took him, so we are going to be free soon,\u201d Di Silvestre said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Di Silvestre believes she speaks for many Venezuelans when she says this is good news and a positive step for the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen I received the news of course I cry, I believe all the Venezuelans cried, because they are happy, this if the first time in twenty six years, I would say twenty-six years yes, twenty six year that we see that light at the end of the tunnel, like finally someone is doing something for our country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With Nicolas Maduro out of power, many Venezuelans are left with questions and uncertainties.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-110110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}