What’s Happening With the U.S. and Venezuela, Explained

It’s been a whirlwind year for Venezuela, and it’s just getting started. Over the weekend, the U.S. launched an incursion into Caracas, capturing the nation’s President Nicolás Maduro and leaving the country in a state of uncertainty over its political and economic future.

The operation was the culmination of a monthslong military pressure campaign by the Trump Administration, which had been framed as an effort to stymie drug trafficking and so-called “narco-terrorism.” In the days since...