WASHINGTON _ The Trump administration has much at stake if U.S.-supported opposition leader Juan Guaido fails to mobilize enough resistance to remove Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro from power.
The removal of Maduro was supposed to be the precursor of a domino effect that would later tumble the dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua.
Current and former officials acknowledge that a failed uprising would cripple the opposition and undermine the administration's top priority in the hemisphere.