President Trump is allegedly losing confidence that Juan Guaido, Venezuela’s legitimate leader, can ever topple socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, and Trump is weighing stronger options to achieve this goal. It’s been almost one year since Guaido took office as interim president of Venezuela and since America started one of its fastest and strongest sanction campaigns to topple a dictator.

Yet Maduro still holds nearly 30 million of my fellow Venezuelans hostage. The socialist system, while recently relaxed, continues to kill innocent people every day. The only path forward is for Venezuelans to replace Guaido with someone who is willing to work in transparent terms with America and our close allies in the region, Colombia and Brazil.