Welcome the U.S. drug trafficking indictments issued against Nicolas Maduro on Thursday. While greater constriction of Venezuelan oil exports will ultimately be necessary to remove the illegitimate president, this step clarifies that the Trump administration will not seek a compromise that allows Maduro to remain in power.

That’s a good thing. Maduro is responsible for turning the world’s oil-richest nation into a land of starving children and endemic corruption. Maduro’s centralization of power in the hands of his cronies and senior military figures has ensured massive inefficiency in state industries (a hallmark of socialism) and such a terrible decline in living standards that millions of Venezuelans have had to abandon their homeland. This is a true human tragedy.