Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. military forces and extradited to the United States, where he faces various narco-terrorist charges. While Maduro’s fate will be decided by U.S. courts, Venezuela’s future needs to be decided by its own citizens, not U.S. state builders.

Although the stated motive of the military action was to bring Maduro to justice for crimes against U.S. citizens, President Trump stated that United States would be “in charge” of Venezuela until there is a safe transition of leadership. He also said the United States would be running the country “with a group” and “designating various people.” Among the people mentioned was the Maduro-appointed Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who President Trump said is “essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.”

Trump seems to think that rebuilding Venezuela’s oil industry will make the country great again. He said, “We are going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken oil........

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