Trump announced the US has removed Venezuela from its list of countries failing to meet international drug control commitments. 🇺🇸🇻🇪 This is first such removal in over 20 years. Every administration since the early 2000s, Republican and Democrat alike, worked the Venezuela drug problem through sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and negotiation with Maduro's government directly, and none of it produced enough measurable change to lift the designation even once in two decades. What changed the outcome wasn't a new sanctions package or another round of talks. It was removing Maduro from power entirely through his January arrest on the underlying narco-terrorism charges, which did in months what twenty years of managing the problem around him never accomplished.