The success of the United States’s three-phase plan toward stabilizing Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro depends on neutralizing Iran’s military presence in the country as well as Russia and China’s encroachment, the Center for a Secure Free Society (SFS) warned this week.

Venezuela is presently undergoing the first steps of a three-phase stability, recovery, and transition program toward restoring democracy following the January 3 U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas that led to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Secretary of State Marco Rubio outlined the program to Congress last week.

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