A Venezuelan living on the Northern Peninsula is welcoming the recent U.S. seizure of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores.

Maria Gardiner Perdomo says she is one of more than 8 million Venezuelans who were forced to leave the country and has been in the province for more than 25 years.

She says she was “incredibly happy” to learn that Maduro was removed as President, something she says she and her family had been waiting to hear for the last 26 years.

She described her time in Venezuela as “horrible.”

“What’s the point? Like, you have the money, but you didn’t have anything to buy. So, no food, no power, no water. It was really a nightmare living there.”

Gardiner Perdomo says Venezuela should be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but is one of the poorest. She says Venezuelans have not been able to benefit from the country’s oil reserves.

“We’re not worried about the oil, because we don’t have (any) benefits from the oil” for the last 26 years,” says Gardiner Perdomo. “So it’s like for us, our resources, and all we have there, we don’t care about it, because the (Maduro) regime took everything from us.”