US envoy Thomas Barrack recently argued that “regime change” has a poor track record. He cited decades of US interventions that failed to produce stable democracies.

Yet this sweeping claim collapses when compared to reality. Washington openly supports removing Maduro in Venezuela, and leaders from across Latin America now speak plainly about replacing his dictatorship. The debate, therefore, is not whether regime change can work — but how it works.

Today, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado arrives in Oslo to accept her Nobel Peace Prize, escorted by four presidents who share a simple conclusion: Maduro’s regime cannot be reformed, only replaced. Millions of Venezuelans agree.