“We hope that the action that our nation is taking today will encourage others,” said Vice President Mike Pence about Venezuela at AS/COA's Washington Conference on the Americas 2019.

International observers often fail to consider the many challenges that Venezuela will face after Maduro is gone.

The economic implosion started long before sanctions took hold.

"It’s a real gallery of authoritarian countries that have lined up in support of Mr. Maduro," said the AS/COA vice president on Morning Edition.

“From here on out, if Maduro is to rule, it will be by fear and oppression, because he has no credibility remaining,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Bloomberg. 

"It's a man-made crisis and it is the largest and worst humanitarian crisis the Western Hemisphere has seen," said vice president of AS/COA.