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WATCH: Cuban Exile Brought To Tears After Receiving News Of Maduro’s Capture

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A heartwarming video of a Cuban exile waking up to news of the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro has racked up millions of views on social media.

The video was posted by the Instagram page @mimaincuba, which documents the lives of a Mari and Yoel, Cuban couple forced to flee their homeland due to decades of communist rule.

In the clip, Mari can be seen waking up Yoel with news of Maduro’s capture at 5 a.m. While still half asleep, Yoel initially perked up at the news before refusing to believe it.

“Lies,” and “you’re messing with me” he said before putting his head back down on the pillow. Mari then shot back by asking why she would be waking him up at 5 a.m. for a joke, at which point Yoel grabbed his news in order to check.

When the news finally sunk in, an elated Yoel, on the verge of tears, repeatedly shook his fist while shouting “let’s celebrate, damn it!”

“Liberty! Thank you, USA!” he shouted, now standing up. He then continued to celebrate, adding “now these a**holes are shaking” in reference to the Cuban regime.

Yoel then capped off the clip by hitting the Trump “YMCA” dance, adding that the day was very emotional in many ways.

Similar clips went viral across multiple social media platforms, including one in which a Venezuelan exile woke up his wife with the news. The couple then broke down in tears as their children slept.

Another clip showed a woman greeting her 96-year-old grandfather with the news.

Venezuela has a sizable diaspora across South America, the United States, Spain and elsewhere.

Since the rise of Hugo Chávez in 1999 and the subsequent leadership of Nicolás Maduro starting in 2013, approximately 7.9 million Venezuelans have fled abroad amid economic collapse, hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages, and political instability.

The exodus began gradually under Chávez, with an estimated 1.5 million Venezuelans leaving between 1999 and 2014. Outflows accelerated dramatically from 2015 onward, rising from around 700,000 Venezuelans abroad in 2015 to the current figures.

UN estimates measure the number of Venezuelan refugees in neighboring Colombia at 2,800,000, while an additional 1,700,000 currently reside in Peru. Hundreds of thousands of additional refugees are scattered across several additional South American countries, while nearly one million refugees are believed to have made their way to the United States.

Thousands of Venezuelans living abroad took to the streets throughout the day Saturday in order to celebrate. In the Miami suburb of Doral — home to one of the largest Venezuelan American communities in the United States — celebrants took to the streets as early as 6 a.m. and remained there all day.  In Miami, Venezuelan and Cuban Americans were seen celebrating the regime’s downfall well into the night Saturday.

The scenes were similar in Lima, Peru and Madrid, Spain, both of which contain sizable Venezuelan communities. In one viral clip, a Spanish leftist can be seen shouting “Viva Chavez, Viva Maduro,” at which point the crowd erupted into deafening boos as she retreated into a metro station.

As of January 2026, there are an estimated eight-million Venezuelan refugees and political exiles living abroad.

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