Actually Infuriating

The Mission system of a fully public state financed planned economy is about as explicitly socialist as economies come.

None of that is actually happening? Despite the "supposedly" socialist government, private companies have gained greater power over how the economy is run and, more importantly, over workers. In recent years, Maduro's government has been actively working against workers.

So... the party of real communists, many of whom support Maduro... they're not going to be targeted for assassination now that Maduro's gone, right?

Assassinated by whom? Trump? Maybe, I don't know. They might wipe out all the parties that align themselves with the left, which would be almost all the historical parties such as the PCV and Acción Democrática.

Real piece of shit for maintaining power rather than handing it over to the reactionaries.

Okay, I admit I expressed myself poorly. What I meant to say was: Chávez did much more for the country than just perpetuate his power, unlike Maduro. Much of what he did, however, was built on sand, which meant that when he died, everything collapsed the moment Maduro took power.

What Maduro and his entourage have been doing is trying to keep a sinking ship afloat.

And i don't want Maduro to be like Allende, but he could at least have been more like Chávez, and then we wouldn't be in this mess.