Franklin Camargo was only six years old when he stood in a Florida grocery store and stared at the variety of Oreo cookies. In that moment, he says he began to understand that the U.S. was very different from his home country of Venezuela.  

When a child “can tell the differences, the huge differences, when it comes to prosperity, happiness, [and] safety between a country and the other one, that’s the biggest sign that a system works and the other one simply doesn’t,” he told The Daily Signal in an interview.

After fleeing Venezuela’s socialist regime as a young man and moving to America, Camargo has spoken out against the Maduro regime.  

While Camargo says he, and many Venezuelans, are “extremely happy” to see the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro, calling it the “biggest happiness Venezuelans have had in more than two decades,” he says Venezuelans also understand that their country “isn’t free yet.”  

Under the direction of President Donald Trump, the U.S. captured Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a military operation on Jan. 3 and brought them to New York City, where they are currently in........

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