Detroit’s Venezuelan community celebrates Maduro’s ouster with hope for future

Jose Gutierrez has been in the city of Detroit for 30 years. He came to this country from Venezuela in search of a better life and has found it. “I got hope,” Gutierrez said. “I think every Venezuelan – outside and inside the country – hope everything’s going to be in the right direction.” Jose, along with his son, own El Rey de las Arepas, a Venezuelan restaurant that has sat at the corner of McGraw and Central in Southwest Detroit since 2015.