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I can’t help but wonder if Delcy Rodríguez might have been among those who took millions from Trump to hand over Maduro and his wife to U.S. authorities. I even imagine that Maduro and his wife themselves could have accepted millions or even billions for this whole circus. Maduro was reportedly laughing, dancing, and joking with his own captors, wishing them “Happy New Year, my friend.” The current Venezuelan administration is far from radical or even social-democratic, which is why the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) argues that the poor need a completely new revolutionary alternative—neither aligned with U.S. imperialism nor with Maduro’s corrupt, non-radical left government. Not long ago, Tarek El Aissami, one of Maduro’s top ministers, allegedly stole 23 billion dollars from public funds. On top of that, Maduro’s neoliberal devaluation policies have slashed the Venezuelan minimum wage to under five dollars a month, the lowest in the world, damaging the reputation of socialism and communism.