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You’re right, I don’t get how so many people on progressive alternative sites like CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, and others, as well as in the ultra-left, the Marxist impossibilist left, and even among anarchists, defend Maduro’s government so strongly. I’m furious about it too.

Marxists and truth-seekers should recognize that since Hugo Chavez’s death, Maduro’s government has never aimed to be a capitalist government transitioning toward a workers’ socialist state. At least Hugo Chavez attempted a kind of transitional phase in the Venezuelan government toward a workers’ state.

I know socialism in one or two countries in this capitalist world is impossible. But at least Maduro could have implemented a kind of welfare-based, high-wage capitalist system like Hugo Chávez did when he was in power, when Venezuela had the highest minimum monthly salary among third-world countries (around 500 to 600 dollars per month). Now, the monthly minimum wage in Venezuela is less than 5 dollars.

Since I don’t have the absolute truth about how the world works, I might be wrong. I asked the artificial intelligence websites socialismai.com and grok.com (which isn’t even a leftist AI) about the real reason Venezuela has the lowest living standards and minimum wage in Latin America and the Caribbean. Both SocialismAI and Grok stated that Maduro isn’t entirely to blame, and that half the responsibility lies with the economic war and sanctions imposed by the Bush, Obama, Joe Biden, and Trump administrations against both Chávez’s and Maduro’s governments.

But getting back to how easy it was to invade and kidnap Maduro, I think maybe Trump’s operatives, the CIA, and others bribed some of the top commanders in the Venezuelan military and security forces so that the military would stand down.

Who knows if Trump actually bribed Maduro, his wife, and even Delcy Rodriguez with billions of dollars—you know why I’m saying this.

During December, Maduro’s attitude seemed really strange to me. He was celebrating Christmas, throwing parties, dancing, and hosting buffets, all while facing the looming US imperialist military threat with powerful weapons like aircraft carriers, submarines, and destroyers stationed right off Venezuela’s coast. I just can’t understand why he was acting that way. Something about it feels very off.