Scene: a spokesman waves a flag and says, "We are running Venezuela for its own good." Someone asks, "For how long?" The spokesman replies, "Until it is properly transitioned." Then another voice asks, "Define properly," and the spokesman says, "Next question." Jokes aside, the Jan 3 raid and the New York transfer are the easy facts; the "we run it" line is where history starts to smell like old colonial farce. If it is truly temporary, publish the timetable and let Venezuelans write the ending. Otherwise you are staging an intervention in three acts with oil as the prop.