I know it seems like a nightmare from which you cannot awake ... but the situation cannot, and will not, go on for much longer. The bottom line is that, at this point, the US cannot let Maduro remain in power without looking completely impotent. Trump's cabinet is even evoking the 'Monroe Doctrine.' Trump will not tolerate Russia's intrusion into its hemisphere and it will not permit the creation of a second 'Cuban exception' in it's own backyard.
Good, bad or indifferent ... this is now a showdown between Maduro and Trump. Trump WILL NOT capitulate. And Russia? Putin is not stupid ... just as he argues that the Ukraine is in Russia's "near-abroad" (strategic sphere of influence), he knows full well that Venezuela is in America's.
All the Lefty protests and pants-peeing in the world will not change this reality. Venezuela has become an incredibly destabilizing force in the region and no South or Central American country can ignore the peril it presents ... irrespective of what politicians say in public.
The US doesn't have to invade (nor does it want to). All it has to do is park an aircraft carrier battle group off the coast of Venezuela and say it will provide weapons and training to the Venezuelan opposition. Once there is even a hint of a credible threat, the Venezuelan Generals will begin negotiating like crazy for amnesty. The reality is that the US could reduce Venezuela's "complex defensive military capacity" to almost nothing (with very few causalities) within a matter of hours.
Mate, just keep everyone alive ... and hold on for a little bit longer.
Quill