Venezuela is entering day 5 without electricity.
Maybe 10 days of being without power will shut down the production of the 3000 tons of cocaine that Venezuela ships into the US each year. The stuff that has already destroyed the lives of millions of Americans, killed a great many of them, pulled innumerable families apart, and turned entire cities into one big crack house. If that doesn't do it maybe a couple of F-16s can.
To avoid any possibility that the the US may be accused of being imperialistic, war mongering, capitalists pigs perhaps the US should send Maduro, and his pack of drug running thugs a nice bouquet of flowers. We should contact the UN on what the proper floral arrangement should be. The sooner that shithole dissolves back into the jungle the better off the US will be. And, of course, if there is any oil worth having; the US should happily, and cheerfully hand it over to the Chinese. We really need to be fair!
The MIC would rather see the US bomb out mud huts, and school buses in some other shithole; like someplace in the Middle East. Their business is selling weapons, and Maduro just doesn't buy enough of them to make him worth dealing with. It doesn't take many $billion weapons systems to run a drug cartel. So lets continue on our present route of arming to the teeth a few tribes of desert savages, and hope they kill each other with the help of US technology. If one is looking for examples of destructive Yankee Imperialism; Venezuela is the wrong direction.