From Venezuelan Communes to U.S. Blocks: Same Struggle, Same Fight.

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

It’s a different country, but the same question: who does a government serve?

By now it seems clear that with the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the Trump crime organization didn’t topple a regime in Venezuela so much as acquire one, in a deadly takeover that swapped the CEO but seems willing to keep the board in the form of Maduro’s former VP, Delcy Rodríguez and her loyalists, as long as they’ll manage the populace while the new owners raid the store.