# Caracas protests

Venezuelans Fill Caracas Streets to Protest Alleged U.S. Military Intervention and the Detention of the Maduro Couple

Mass demonstrations in Caracas on January 23 denounced an alleged U.S. military operation that protesters say detained President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3. The protests invoked the historic 1958 uprising to frame the mobilization as a defence of sovereignty and carry implications for regional diplomacy, legal norms and great-power competition.