It is an interesting question... I feel sorry for the people of Venezuela. They are a wicked people who have denied, God, Capitalism, and embraced wickedness, drugs, the lies of communists propaganda, and communism. To some extent what is happening is just natural. Communism tends to fail when you run out of rich people to steal from. (With rampant gangs, high murder rates, political corruption, police corruption, and more; they have are the highest murder rates in Latin America.) (And the communists are very successfully trying to destroy what is left of all successful capitalists and businesses.) The USA and Venezuela have been political enemies for a long time. To see the USA's enemies fail, when we do nothing is a interesting beneficial side effect of understanding basic economics. Free markets work, and although many deny it; they still have to deal with the side effects. I doubt there is significant USA interest in Invading. The USA does not need Venezuelan oil. And no matter what, people are going to claim, -if the USA invades- that we are after the oil. We certainly were not after the oil in Iraq, but that did not stop years of accusations. It is hard enough to deal with all the difficulties of going into another country without the negative publicity that comes from years of main stream media nagging about the outcomes. It takes a lot of work and time, in Iraq, Afganistan, Korea, Japan, and Germany to build a successful nation. And people of Venezuela would likely rebel against any USA occupation force. It is not easy setting up the judicial systems -going after the drug dealers- and investing and building a country. Most Latin American Countries, -columbia, brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, are having real problems. (Interestingly enough even Puerto Rico, -under USA control for years, has had difficulty getting to the mainlands levels of economic productivity. It could be latin American culture, I don't know.) Venezuelan people are not going to be happy with a USA invasion, they are just going to demand more free stuff from an invading force. It is true that the USA could come in. Truthfully, a United Nations force, bringing in humanitarian aid, and led by someone other than the United States. (lead by South American Neighboring Countries) (With advisement of Britain, Australian, European leaders, with a very minor American -Logistical Support, would probably be better. That Said everyone always wants America to foot the bill. These invasions and country building exercises get expensive. It is an interesting question, but if the people of Veneuzela wait for American intervention, they are likely going to Die of Hunger. We let everyone in Cambodia die during 1975. (We were sick of Vietnam.) We are sick of Iraq and Afganistan and Syria now... The Venezuelan people are going to need to change their hearts and minds and start locally ending corruption, and building the type of country they want to live in. They need to look at other countries examples, like Columbia, and just reverse all policies of the last 20 years reversing direction back to free markets. They know and have seen the right way to do things. But they have chosen a different path. It saddens my heart, but these are the consequences of individual and collective responsibility for actions.