{"id":492880,"date":"2026-01-05T00:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492880\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:08:18","slug":"philadelphia-metro-area-venezuelans-unite-after-maduros-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492880\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia metro-area Venezuelans unite after Maduro\u2019s capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    While \u2018a dangerous precedent\u2019 could\u2019ve been set, it could also be \u2018a sign that something\u2019s going to change\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Criticism has been levied on Trump\u2019s \u201ccontradictory\u201d policies, such as removing temporary protected status and work permits for Venezuelan immigrants. However, Maduro\u2019s presidency has been under scrutiny by media organizations and election watchdog groups, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/10\/gonzalez-proof-win-venezuela-election-vote-tally-maduro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found that opposition party candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez won<\/a> the 2024 elections in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>Through a translation provided by her son, Bracho said that everyone who attended Sunday\u2019s service wanted the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for this moment for 26 years with this government that claims to be democratic, but they\u2019re completely opposite of it,\u201d Bracho said. \u201cBeing in a place where faith reassures and lights up on each other and everyone that\u2019s here, it\u2019s definitely suiting because of how close we are to the goal of getting everyone from the government out of there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2026\/01\/1166698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cdevelopments constitute a dangerous precedent,\u201d<\/a> and that rules of international law were not respected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by the recent escalation in Venezuela, culminating with today\u2019s United States military action in the country, which has potential worrying implications for the region,\u201d U.N. spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric said in a statement Saturday. \u201cThe Secretary-General continues to emphasize the importance of full respect \u2014 by all \u2014 of international law, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/charter-united-nations\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Charter<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u00e9nez-Ar\u00e9valo said it\u2019s \u201ca mix depending on how you see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, it\u2019s like an opening to at least have a sign that something\u2019s going to change,\u201d Jim\u00e9nez-Ar\u00e9valo said. \u201cIt is also a sign of justice that Maduro finally is going \u2026 to have to justify and prove his innocence, which he\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While \u2018a dangerous precedent\u2019 could\u2019ve been set, it could also be \u2018a sign that something\u2019s going to change\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,30573,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,32322],"class_list":{"0":"post-492880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-church","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-venezuela"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115839586259757801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}