West Alabama Family Stuck In Caribbean After Maduro Arrest

Usually, you deal with a ton of issues this time of year related to just good old-fashioned holiday travel, snarls, and hold ups and delays.

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It’s not typical for your delay to be due to our president and military going into another country to grab the president and his wife and bring them back to America to stand in trial.

You don’t hear that one every day, but several families from our area are dealing with major travel issues because of the situation in Venezuela.

Like the family from Hoover, Alabama, who happened to be visiting Aruba, you know like from that beach Boys song, Aruba Jamaica, never mind and they woke up to the sounds of chaos.

I don’t care who you are. That has to be pretty frightening when you are visiting any foreign country..

The family received a bunch of notices and notifications alerting them that their flight as well as many other others would be canceled.

They are far from the Only family experiencing this as thousands of Americans that were traveling abroad have had their travel plans severely disrupted because of the military action in Venezuela.

The family from Alabama, according to WBRC say that in spite of the situation most of the locals have remained very calm and friendly.

The family is not completely set on a return date to West Alabama, but they do believe it will more than likely happen this weekend and we are keeping them in our thoughts and prayers and hoping for a safe return very soon.