His bellicose national security adviser, John Bolton, boasted that “The troika of tyranny in this hemisphere — Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua — has finally met its match.” . ..…

The administration has significantly ratched up its rhetoric for democracy over communism since Bolton’s Troika of Tyranny speech in November in which he called the leaders of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua “clowns” and said the United States “looks forward to watching” their..…