>>64212192
I don't know what is going on in Cuba, but the Ortegas have gone nuts I think. Daniel Ortega made his crazy New Age witchy wife co-president and she installed these metal trees all over Nicaragua to ward off evil spirits. Pay no attention to the government goons in the foreground.

>>64212258
Yeah the communist party (the PCV) broke with the PSUV some time ago and has been effectively outlawed:
https://x.com/OrianaBeLike/status/1818079155344257250

>>64214556
>>64214839
At this point it's more corrupt military kleptocracy. From what I can tell, the Chavista coalition in the 2000s was built around an alliance of the military, trade unions, left-wing social movement activists, and slum organizations called colectivos. But that pretty much collapsed after Chavez died and all that remains are the military and (some) favored slum organizations. Another odd thing that isn't known about much is Maduro hamming up being a Christian, recruiting Evangelicals (in a majority Catholic country) and giving gibs to Evangelical churches, which is strange because Evangelicals in Latin America are often more pro-U.S. coded.

>>64228163
This is a bit of a wild card but I'm not sure Cuba would get involved in Essequibo, and it's possible they'd remain neutral. They have been curiously silent on Venezuela's saber-rattling recently. Part of this might be that historically Cuba has ties with Guyana. Before Chavez came to power, Venezuela had right-wing governments, and Guyana had left-wing governments friendly to Cuba, and Cuba sided with Guyana on Essequibo (like, 1960s). Guyana was also a pit stop for Cuban troops going to Angola during the Cold War. An interesting thing about Guyana is that there's a complete absence of a center-right or conservative party there, there are two parties that are broadly under the social-democratic umbrella, but effectively one represents the Indo-Guyanese population and the other represents the Afro-Guyanese population.