By the time I arrived in the Colombian border city of Cúcuta, in mid-January, most of the journalists who'd come after U.S. Special Operations Forces had captured and extracted the Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, on January 3rd, had left. They'd descended on Cúcuta from Belgium and France and Mexico and the U.S., in the hope of entering Venezuela by crossing the Simón Bolívar International Bridge, the busiest of three bridges spanning the Táchira River.