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Venezuela’s op­po­si­tion sup­port­ers have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in pow­er — a dream that was ful­filled when the U.S. mil­i­tary whisked the au­thor­i­tar­i­an leader away. But while Maduro is in jail in New York on drug traf­fick­ing charges, the lead­ers of his re­pres­sive ad­min­is­tra­tion re­main in charge.

The na­tion’s op­po­si­tion — backed by con­sec­u­tive Re­pub­li­can and De­mo­c­ra­t­ic ad­min­is­tra­tions in the U.S. — for years vowed to im­me­di­ate­ly re­place Maduro with one of their own and re­store democ­ra­cy to the oil-rich coun­try. But U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump de­liv­ered them a heavy blow by al­low­ing Maduro’s vice pres­i­dent, Del­cy Ro­dríguez, to as­sume con­trol.

Mean­while, most op­po­si­tion lead­ers, in­clud­ing No­bel Peace Prize win­ner María Co­ri­na Macha­do, are in ex­ile or prison.