President Donald Trump will only come out in his campaign to pressure Nicolas Maduro if the Venezuelan leader gets removed from power, Elliott Abrams, who served as the special representative for Venezuela during the first Trump administration, said on Thursday.

The Department of War currently has a larger buildup of military forces in the Caribbean than at any point in decades, and is carrying out lethal attacks on suspected drug smuggling boats off Venezuela’s coast, while the administration has doubled the reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest to $50 million.