ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Roughly three dozen people gathered at a Venezuelan restaurant Saturday afternoon to express relief and gratitude that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was removed from power in an overnight raid hours earlier.
Claudia Canelon, the owner of La Bicicleta, an arepa bar on Union Boulevard, invited the Venezuelan community to gather at the restaurant for a moment of celebration and prayer.
The region’s Venezuelan population had been waiting for years for Maduro to fall from power — he claimed a second term during a constitutional crisis in 2019 and international observers say he committed mass election fraud to claim a third term in 2024…