Before the assembled nations of the world, Venezuela's interim leader Delcy Rodríguez offered a promise this week — elections, an orderly transition, a return of power to the people. It was a gesture toward democratic legitimacy made from one of history's most visible stages, yet it arrived without the one detail that transforms intention into obligation: a date. In the long story of nations navigating the distance between promise and practice, Venezuela now stands at a familiar and precarious threshold.