Venezuelan capital quiet, streets empty after US strike

CARACAS — A lingering smell of explosives hung over Venezuela’s capital Caracas on Saturday as shocked residents took stock after an early-morning US strike that ousted strongman Nicolas Maduro. While a few hundred Maduro supporters gathered to clamor for his freedom, the streets were otherwise eerily quiet. “I felt the explosions lift me out of bed. In that instant I thought: ‘My God, the day has come,’ and I cried,” Maria Eugenia Escobar, a 58-year-old resident of the city of six million people, told AFP. READ: Maduro now in New York jail as Trump says US to ‘run’ Venezuela The […]... Keep on reading: Venezuelan capital quiet, streets empty after US strike