Florida Conservative

Even if Washington (or Miami media) prefers a face, the governing reality right now is contested because Delcy Rodríguez has been seated domestically by regime-held institutions, and there are reports of crackdown behavior (e.g., detentions of journalists). Reuters +2 The Guardian +2

What this administration is doing is internally consistent with how it thinks about power, legitimacy, and time—and it is not a continuation of the Bush-Obama era nation-building model that the media keeps dragging out of storage every time the United States acts abroad.

There’s a long-running public record that the U.S. has pursued criminal cases against Maduro and senior Venezuelan figures. The DOJ announced in March 2020 that Maduro and others were charged, describing narco-terrorism / drug trafficking-related allegations (and related conduct). Department of Justice

The opposition, led by González and Machado, has galvanized significant public support, evidenced by massive demonstrations across the count