Venezuelan capital quiet, streets empty after US strike
The Peninsula
Caracas: A lingering smell of explosives hung over Venezuela s capital Caracas on Saturday as shocked residents took stock after an early morning US s...
Caracas: A lingering smell of explosives hung over Venezuela's capital Caracas on Saturday as shocked residents took stock after an early-morning US strike that ousted strongman Nicolas Maduro.
While a few hundred Maduro supporters gathered to clamor for his freedom, the streets were otherwise eerily quiet.
"I felt the explosions lift me out of bed. In that instant I thought: 'My God, the day has come,' and I cried," Maria Eugenia Escobar, a 58-year-old resident of the city of six million people, told AFP.
The strikes started around 2:00 am local time, with dozens of detonations that some people at first mistook for fireworks.
Windows rattled from the shockwaves and residents rushed out onto terraces and balconies as military aircraft zoomed overhead.
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