SEE PICS: Venezuelans worldwide celebrate as exiles react to Maduro’s capture

Venezuelans crossed the globe took to the streets aft the seizure of Nicolás Maduro, whose regularisation was marked by economical illness and wide migration retired of the oil-rich nation.

Venezuelans successful Miami, Fla., Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and Madrid, Spain, donned Venezuela’s nationalist colors and waved flags hours aft President Donald Trump announced that Maduro and his woman had been flown retired of the state pursuing an overnight U.S. subject operation.

In Miami, Venezuelans danced and cheered, with celebrations besides taking spot extracurricular Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence successful Palm Beach, Fla. In Doral, Fla., revelers chanted "liberty" and draped Venezuelan flags implicit their shoulders.

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Venezuelans observe the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro extracurricular Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2025, successful Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Outside the El Arepazo restaurant, a hub of the Venezuelan civilization of Doral, 1 antheral held a portion of cardboard with "Libertad" scrawled with a achromatic marker. It was a sentiment expressed by different autochthonal Venezuelans hoping for a caller opening for their location state arsenic they chanted "Liberty! Liberty! Liberty!"

"We’re similar everybody — it’s a operation of feelings, of course," Alejandra Arrieta, who came to the U.S. successful 1997, told The Associated Press.

"There’s fears. There’s excitement," helium said. "There’s truthful galore years that we’ve been waiting for this. Something had to hap successful Venezuela. We each request the freedom."

A kid holds a motion speechmaking "Somos Libres" ("We Are Free") during a rally successful Santiago, Chile, connected Jan. 3, 2026, aft President Donald Trump said U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pursuing a subject operation (Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro/Getty Images)

Ecstatic crowds besides gathered successful Santiago, Chile, wherever 1 kid held a motion speechmaking "Somos Libres," meaning, "We Are Free."

The demonstrations reflected the standard of Venezuela’s diaspora, which has grown dramatically during Maduro’s years successful power, arsenic millions fled what critics picture arsenic a play of economical illness marked by hyperinflation and wide nutrient shortages.

Since 2017, astir 8 cardinal radical person fled Venezuela, making it 1 of the world’s largest displacement crises, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency.

Venezuelans successful Peru observe astatine Miguel de Cervantes Park adjacent the Venezuelan Embassy successful Lima connected Jan. 3, 2026, aft President Donald Trump said U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pursuing strikes connected Venezuela. (Connie France / AFP via Getty Images)

More than 6.9 cardinal Venezuelans are presently hosted successful Latin American and Caribbean countries, portion hundreds of thousands much unrecorded successful the United States and Europe, wherever diaspora communities person remained politically progressive and intimately engaged with events backmost home.

People observe successful Madrid, Spain, connected Jan. 3, 2026, aft President Donald Trump said the United States struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro. (REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura)

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People clasp Venezuelan and U.S. flags arsenic they respond successful the streets of Miami, Fla., connected Jan. 3, 2026, aft President Donald Trump said the United States struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro. (REUTERS/Marco Bello)

Maduro has been successful powerfulness since 2013, erstwhile helium succeeded longtime Venezuelan person Hugo Chávez pursuing Chávez’s death, presiding implicit a play marked by economical decline, governmental unrest and wide migration.

Not each reactions to the U.S. enactment were celebratory.

People respond successful the streets of Miami, Florida, connected Jan. 3, 2026, aft President Donald Trump said the U.S. struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro. (REUTERS/Marco Bello)

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Protests some successful favour of and against the strikes person been scheduled successful Buenos Aires and different cities crossed the region, underscoring heavy divisions implicit Venezuela’s aboriginal and Washington’s relation successful the crisis.

In Greece, members of the Greek Communist Party demonstrated against Maduro’s capture.