Venezuela, After Maduro

My is Venezuela, and my name is John Rodriguez. My name is Juan, and I'm in Caracas in the capital. My name is Carolina Hill. I live near the most important military complex here in Venezuela. Early January 3, it was, like, 01:57AM, and I was watching a movie with my sister, and everything went completely dark. And five seconds later, we heard the first explosion. I ran to the window to take a look at what was going on. My hands were shaking. I could only see the light of the moon. And we could hear the airplanes, and we could hear the helicopters, but we couldn't see them. And the walls of my building, the windows were shaking. I thought, now the gringos are here. They are attacking Carracas. Everybody in the city heard the noises. I think we were nervous, but at the same time excited because we thought they were overthrowing the government. They were freeing us from the dictatorship. Like, my girlfriend and I were crying and screaming. I called my mom. I called my brothers. Like, I called all my family. We were waiting for that for eight years. When Donald Trump put up the picture with Maduro's tattoo, I am so happy in that moment. Oh my god, man. Honestly, I cry for that picture. It's finished that. This hell. This felt like a real victory. Like, someone in this government that has done so much damage to my country is going to finally face real justice. After this attack, we were like, okay, they did it, but what's the meaning of that? What will come for us? I mean, what what's the next step? Because, okay, they took Maduro out, but we have Delphi, we have Padino Lopez, we have Jorge Rodriguez. I mean, they are still here. Other people, government is free. I am confused. The future in Venezuela really, really is constant pain, and the people don't know what will happen. The people is so scared, is so scared. From The New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitrolef. This is The Daily. On Monday, as Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Celia, pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan courtroom, the nearly 30,000,000 people of Venezuela struggled to absorb the reality of a post Maduro era, an era in which The United States appears to be the dominant force reshaping their once firmly anti American government. Today, my colleague Anatoly Kermanayev explains why president Trump chose to back a Maduro loyalist to run the country and what Venezuelans think of it all. It's Tuesday, January 6. Hi, Anatoli. Welcome. It's good to have you here. Thanks for having me, Natalie. So in the last couple of days, we at the show have talked about how this operation to capture Nicolas Maduro went down. We've talked about the legality of it. What we haven't talked about as much is who is running Venezuela right now, and how is all of that gonna play out? …