By MariΓ«tte Le Roux, AFP
Photo: TOMAS CUESTA/AFP
Some of the nearly eight million Venezuelans who fled economic collapse and repression under Nicolas Maduro gathered in their thousands in cities worldwide Saturday to celebrate the strongman's ouster by US forces.
Thousands massed in the Chilean capital, Santiago, joyfully waving the Venezuelan flag, many decked out in their national colours of yellow, blue and red.
Photo: JULIO CESAR AGUILAR/AFP
"At last we'll be able to go back home," street vendor Yurimar Rojas told AFP, straining to make himself heard over the ebullient crowd.
"At last we're going to have a free country," he exclaimed.
Maduro, whose claims to ree
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