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Madro is not so fooish as to think he can hold on to power for long and may be preparing stay behind forces to disrupt the post Bolivarian phase. That's what his foreign advisers would probably recommend. Hit squads, car bombs, terror tactics.
The Achilles heel of past regime change efforts whether kinetic or diplomatic has been a lack of information about local factionalism resulting from a reliance on diplomats, intelligence agencies and exiles who often don't have info at that detail.
The Cubans who have deployed 'doctors' and advisers in Venezuela for years and are native Spanish speakers may have information dominance over American state department types. They are certain to have networks.
The important thing is not to start the "Washington clock" that will start the Sanders and AOCs up but keep the clock going in Moscow or Havana till it is they who are exhausted.
