Every dictator deserves an infamous pun. Seriousness grants importance, solemnity, while humor denies greatness or transcendence. Laughter fulminates the myth. This is what Vladimir Nabokov shows in "Tyrants Destroyed". In the short story, a character who lives under totalitarianism plans ways to kill the despot, but, at the end of the narrative, he has a revelation: "Laughter saved me. I realize that, in my efforts to make the tyrant terrifying, I only made him ridiculous, destroying him." The fall of Nicolás Maduro is a reason to rejoice not only for Venezuelans, but for anyone who calls themselves a Democrat. Your government is a machine of human rights violations. End of freedom of expression and press, illegal arrests, torture and murders — not to mention the economy destroyed by moribund leftist ideology, which generated hunger and mass migration. It is one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world, and the biggest on the continent, this century. We must be happy with the capture of the beast that created such a disaster, which does not mean applauding Trump's crazy interventionism. This modus operandi is the same as that of Putin, who now decimates the Ukrainian people. Both attacks violate international law, and the sovereignty of nations guaranteed by it is necessary — after all, the very idea of allowing one country to overthrow the governments of others is also authoritarian. Would it be better if Venezuelans deposed their dictator? Of course. And so they tried at the polls and with protests since 2017. They tried asking for international help, and the PT governments in Brazil, the largest country in the region, continued to flatter the caudillo. The UN and the International Criminal Court highlighted crimes against humanity in Venezuela, without generating any effective action. Maduro fell, it was too late. If Trump was responsible — who, like the crazy caricature, thinks he is Napoleon —, a global effort is needed to ensure that multilateralism and international law do not collapse once and for all. While the authorities argue, let us celebrate the laughter, even if momentary, of Venezuelans. LINK PRESENT: Did you like this text? Subscribers can access seven free accesses from any link per day. Just click the blue F below.