President Donald Trump’s decision to seize Venezuela’s former dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and bring him to America for trial is a win for the United States and a strategic loss for Washington’s enemies. But while Tehran, Moscow, Pyongyang, and Beijing are all losers here, having been denied a partner against American interests, Havana is the biggest loser.

Venezuela was a democracy until Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez, came to power in 1999. Chávez subverted Venezuela’s institutions and laid out the welcome mat for America’s adversaries. By the time that Chávez died from cancer in 2013, Caracas was a forward operating base for Iran, Russia, and China. But no country played a greater role in Venezuela’s shift from pro-American democracy to repressive anti-Western autocracy than Cuba. Ever since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, Cuba........

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