Venezuelan living in N.L. celebrating United States capture of President Nicolás Maduro
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The United States' capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife, is an event worth celebrating for one Venezuelan refugee living in Newfoundland and Labrador.
“This was the help we were waiting to get out of the reparation and dictatorship in our country,” Geraldine Pacheco told CBC News on Saturday.
Pacheco arrived in St. John’s with her husband and two small children from the South American country through a humanitarian aid visa in 2024.
“The situation in Venezuela is very difficult, very difficult,” she said, adding that her parents and sister still live in the country.
“They are happy about what is happening because they want to live in a free Venezuela. Right now, they live with fears, repression… and no food, no supplies,” Pacheco said.
The U.S. hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and moved Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington — an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack.
Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Maduro and his wife were at their home within the Fort Tiuna military installation when they were captured.
"That's where they bombed," he said. "And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the president and the first lady of the country."
Maduro and his wife have since been indicted in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media platform X.
Bondi added that the couple will “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts."
The situation marks Washington's most direct intervention in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama.
Multiple explosions rang out, and low-flying aircraft swept through Caracas, the capital of the oil-rich nation, early Saturday, as Maduro’s government immediately accused the United States of attacking civilian and military installations.
The Venezuelan government called it an “imperialist attack” and urged citizens to take to the streets.
Pacheco doesn’t see it that way.
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The United States' capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife, is an event worth celebrating for one Venezuelan refugee living in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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