Over the last few weeks, Donald Trump has ratcheted up pressure on Nicholas Maduro to leave Venezuela.

The US has plenty of good reasons to force the Marxist dictator from power, narco trafficking, human rights violations, and flooding the US with transnational criminal gang members among them.

Perhaps the biggest threat Maduro poses, is his partnership with Hezbollah in Iran. Those ties go back to 1999 and Hugo Chavez, and Hezbollah is involved in every aspect of Maduro's criminal enterprises.

Iran's proxy army has established its own network in Venezuela and serves the Iranian regime's ambitions to destroy what its mullahs call the great Satan.

The mainstream media in the US have rarely reported on this partnership, but others have sent up warnings. The Atlantic Council warned five years ago that Hezbollah is equal to the cartels in organized crime and terror in the Western hemisphere.

That threat extends across Latin America, but Maduro's regime is its nexus in the region.

 Donald Trump understands this threat and that America has to act now to stop it.