Venezuelan activist Yesenia González says she supports US intervention in Venezuela – by any means necessary – and believes US president Donald Trump will end Nicolás Maduro’s rule and bring "justice" to her people.

“I have confidence: very soon we will be celebrating democracy in Venezuela,” González said at her office in Princes Court, Keate Street, Port of Spain, on October 29.

Asked if she favours a US-led regime change or one driven by Venezuelans, González was emphatic, “We left it to the Venezuelan people for over 20 years, and they persecuted and starved us. He allowed criminals to run rampant, and if people protested, he jailed them. Speak against Maduro and you will be persecuted.”