Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela's socialist tyrant, has given up to the new Trump administration.

He is providing migrants with fully paid return flights; receiving deported of Tren de Aragua criminals; increasing oil production and releasing of American prisoners. The only thing the autocrat is not willing to give up is power, and the new administration seems unwilling to use taxpayer dollars to overthrow his regime.

The Venezuelan oil industry is reaching a million barrels per day, its highest production in five years. On Feb. 1, the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control renewed the General License 41 that allows Chevron to operate within Venezuela, and the Trump administration let it through.

Despite this new oil recovery, Maduro is a political orphan at home. He does not enjoy the popular support of his people. The opposition remains strong, and most of the world perceives him as an illegitimate leader with blood on his hands and no respect for human rights.

Trump has not made a final decision on Venezuelan oil. The issue is still under review. In the meantime, though, investors and even some intellectuals consider that U.S. presence in Venezuela is........

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