{"id":6062,"date":"2026-02-04T08:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/04\/thousands-rally-caracas-demanding-release-return-nicolas-maduro\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:45:21","slug":"thousands-rally-caracas-demanding-release-return-nicolas-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/04\/thousands-rally-caracas-demanding-release-return-nicolas-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Gather in Caracas Demanding Maduro\u2019s Release and Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Venezuelans gathered in Caracas, the capital, on Tuesday in a large protest demanding the freedom and return of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the country\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, protesters marched through parts of the city chanting, &#8220;Venezuela needs Nicol\u00e1s.&#8221; Some participants carried images of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who, according to them, were kidnapped together.<\/p>\n<p>Many attendees wore red clothing and raised Venezuelan national flags across different areas of the city, symbols expressing their support for their president.<\/p>\n<p>One participant told AFP that a sense of &#8220;confusion, sorrow, and anger&#8221; is widespread among the people. He identified Maduro\u2019s detention as the main reason for the public demonstrations and added that despite feelings of despair and uncertainty, hope for the president\u2019s freedom still remains alive among the protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands rally in Caracas demanding the release and return of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro amid widespread public emotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}