Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro talks to high-ranking military officers on his inauguration day for a third term, in Caracas, in January, 2025.Ariana Cubillos/The Associated Press

Venezuelans are legendary partiers, and the images of dictator Nicolas Maduro in handcuffs aboard a U.S. ship early Saturday morning provided the first excuse in a very long time for a mass celebration – not just on the streets of Caracas, but in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Santiago, New York and places between, where a third of Venezuela’s population has been forced to flee the misery and violence spread by Mr. Maduro’s rule.

But by Sunday, while the rest of the world focused on the legality of U.S.’s President Donald Trump’s stealth military raid and the morality of externally imposed regime change and........

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