Basically, Venezuela political structure had two parts - army, controlling drugs flow, and government, controlling all the rest. Chavez made cartel "del Sol" part of the government, thus allowing it to overpower traditional government businesses in a wave of "nationalizations" - but throwing entire system into collapse, internally and internationally. Chavez was removed, but the system never recover. While poverty is endemic in Venezuela, surviving middle-class attempted to fight back - but was soon ruined by waves of low-class zombies, proved itself incapable of creating a political subject, and eventually flee the country. Now Venezuela is down to, basically, a feudal level - with military drug lords sponsoring street criminals ("colectivos") who control the hungry crowds for them. These crowds, in the meantime, completely depend on government-provided fodder - making Venezuela one big slum. What is important to see here, is that this is exactly what globalist "world government" wants to do to the west - exterminate the middle class, and enslave ignorant mass of sheep, hopelessly in debt, into a primitive feudal governing structure. Reason for that being, that hierarchical control of a more complex society and economics resulted to be too much for globalists to handle - hence they opted for simplification. Hence covid.