Venezuelans are reacting to Maduro’s capture with anger, fear, hope and joy

Venezuelans celebrate the news of Nicolás Maduro's capture in Puerta del Sol, Madrid, on January 3. Harry Rodgers

When the news broke of Nicolás Maduro’s arrest following a US attack on Venezuela on January 3, que locura (“what madness”) was the line that seemed to capture the moment. As Venezuelans around the world reached for their phones and anxiously followed the news, they grappled to make sense of what they were seeing.

Drawing on our long-term ethnographic research with Venezuelans living in Spain...