From Caracas to Cayman: Why Venezuela matters here
When the news broke in the early hours of 3 Jan., Venezuelan Lucia Seijas was asleep in her home in the Cayman Islands. Her mother, still in Venezuela, had called the night before with a cryptic warning: “Sleep well, because it’s happening.”
By 5am, Seijas’s phone was ringing non-stop. By dawn, she was standing in her kitchen, scrolling through social media and exchanging messages in a WhatsApp group of around 60 Venezuelans who call Cayman home, trying to process what had once seemed impossible: Nicolás Maduro was no longer in power. For a more complete summary of the story, please see the below link:
Published on: Jan 09, 2026 11:50 AM