At El Arepazo, one of the traditional Venezuelan restaurants in Doral, people celebrated regime change in Venezuela by waving la bandera.
This came after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. had captured Venezuelan authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro following a large-scale strike on Caracas early Saturday morning.
“We’ve been waiting for this for 26 years, and it has finally happened,” said a Venezuelan woman. “I can’t believe it.”
Alejandro Marquina Villalobos is a junior majoring in Digital Broadcasting. In the future, he’s hoping to make an impact nationally and internationally as a political journalist.
Valentina Gaspari is a senior majoring in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Social Media and E-Marking Analytics. She was raised in South Florida, but was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A dog lover and açaí fan, Gaspari speaks English and Spanish, enjoys traveling and loves to stay fit. Graduating in Spring 2026, she hopes to become a news reporter (MMJ) in a small market in the Southeast.
