{"id":386564,"date":"2026-01-04T02:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386564\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:36:11","slug":"venezuela-latest-captured-venezuelan-leader-maduro-arrives-in-new-york-city-after-us-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/386564\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela latest: Captured Venezuelan leader Maduro arrives in New York City after US strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘This would not have happened without Trump’: Venezuelans react to US actionpublished at 23:03 GMT 3 January<\/p>\n

23:03 GMT 3 January<\/p>\n

\"\"Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from Doral, Florida<\/p>\n

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Elkin, who has lived in the US for nine years, tells me he was woken up by a friend in Venezuela late last night, who reported the strikes before it hit social media.<\/p>\n

“This would not have happened without Donald Trump,” he tells me in the distinctive Spanish of Venezuela, a broad smile on his face as he held a Venezuelan flag. <\/p>\n

For now, Elkin is unconcerned by the transition of power, or Trump’s earlier comment that the US will “run” Venezuela. <\/p>\n

“The important thing now is that [Maduro and his wife] they are finished, they won’t be able to come back,” he says. “Trump did that.”<\/p>\n

Rosanna Matteo, a Venezuelan who has lived in the US since 2012, says she knew the US was “capable” of toppling Maduro \u2013 and Chavez before him – but never thought it would happen. <\/p>\n

Matteo says she would often dream of waking up in the middle of the night to the news that Maduro had fallen.<\/p>\n

“And last night my husband woke me up to tell me,” she says.<\/p>\n

While she is not worried about the transition, she says she wants one thing to be made clear to the Trump administration: many Venezuelans like her would be furious if, in the long-term, officials tied to the Maduro regime remain in place.<\/p>\n

“We don’t accept that, and we don’t want it,” she adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘This would not have happened without Trump’: Venezuelans react to US actionpublished at 23:03 GMT 3 January 23:03…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-386564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}