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WATCH: Venezuelans Flood The Streets To Celebrate Maduro’s Downfall

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Thousands of Venezuelan citizens and refugees abroad took to the streets in order to celebrate the rapid collapse of dictator Nicolas Maduro’s regime.

While much of the celebrations have taken place abroad — where millions of Venezuelan citizens have been forced to flee over the last two decades — several verified cheering has been verified in the country itself. Aerial footage shows a sizable crowd gathered in an open area of the nation’s capital of Caracas hours after Maduro’s capture.

Nighttime clips from high-rise buildings in Caracas were complete sounds and visuals of people banging pots and pans from balconies, a common form of protest in Venezuela. Street-level footage shows a group pulling down a Maduro poster or image amid applause and cheers, described as locals in Venezuela reacting to the news.

Several additional celebrations were observed across South America, as well as the United States. In Doral, Florida, a large group of people dressed in a mixture of Venezuelan and American flag-themed clothing cheered Maduro’s fall and praised President Donald Trump.

Additional celebrations from Venezuelan Americans — a number of whom were forced to flee the authoritarian regime — could be seen celebrating across Florida and other major cities in the United States.

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.

Additional celebrations were observed in nations with significant Venezuelan populations.

“The time has come for popular sovereignty in Venezuela and the installation of opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the country’s leader,” said María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s main opposition leader and recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Edmundo González Urrutia, who is recognized as Venezuela’s president-elect following a rigged election in 2014, responded to Machado’s statement by calling for a focus on national reconstruction. “Venezuelans, these are decisive hours, know that we are ready for the great operation of the reconstruction of our nation,” he said.

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