Actually Infuriating

The real communist party of Venezuela, PCV was botched by the Chavistas, turning it in a mere shadow of its former self, a really sad thing to see from one of the oldest parties of my country.

Its "former self" was trash. It collapsed because it broke the law.

• 1996: Óscar Figuera becomes general secretary.
• 2013: Maduro comes to power, who begins consolidating PSUV state power and building coalitions, gradually leading to divides between pro-PSUV and anti-PSUV factions based on whether or not to work within a coalition or to oppose a coalition.
• 2016: Figuera, leading the anti-PSUV faction, becomes afraid he'll be ousted by the pro-PSUV faction, so he puts a complete freeze on any party assemblies or internal congresses so there cannot be elections or anything voted on.
• 2021: Figuera begins to expel pro-PSUV members, most notably Henry Parra for having endorsed a PSUV member. This led to Parra becoming a symbol of "resistance" against Fuegara.
• May 2023: Many members of PCV meet in secret to finally host the first congress since 2016 without Figuera's approval where they elect Parra as their new leader. Figuera decried this as a "fake congress" and the results of the vote didn't count.
• August 2023: In Venezuela, you have to register parties, so legally there can only be one PCV, so this dispute led to intervention by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice which sided with Parra's faction as Figuera's refusal to hold elections for a registered party violated Article 67 of Venezuela's constitution which requires that all parties allow for democratic participation of its members, and also used the turnover rate in the party was absurdly low such as Figeura himself being in power for 27 years as additional evidence that it was restricting participation.