ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — When Omar Mayorga’s phone rang just before 1 a.m., the voice on the other end carried an urgency he could not ignore.
“Turn on the TV,” his uncle in Venezuela told him. “They are bombing Caracas.”
Mayorga, a Venezuelan broadcaster who has lived in the Asheville area for three years, began scrolling through news feeds and YouTube broadcasts from his home in Western North Carolina. What he saw — reports of U.S. military strikes on strategic sites in Caracas and the capture of Nicolás Maduro — triggered a rush of emotions that many Venezuelans abroad say they know all too well…