Where is Venezuela?

First, I read about Venezuela under Chavez, who somehow got elected in 1998 when the US were not paying attention, then took office in 1999 and nationalised just about everything, and started giving all the money formerly taken by US corporations to the Venezuelan people.

The US would not stand for this, so the US military went into Venezuela in 2022 and arrested Chavez, but the Venezuelan people freed him two days later, and Chavez remained president of Venezuela until his death in 2013.

Then Maduro took over. And that's where the history gets very complicated.

One need not be a US puppet to be corrupt. The puppet governments of US neo-colonies let the US take everything, but the US pay them with money and weapons, so they live very well (and they even get visas so they can visit the US and buy stuff in expensive US shops). But some non-US puppets take all the money formerly going to US oligarchs and keep it all for themselves, so the US and the citizens of their own country join forces to e remove them from power. After which, the ordinary citizens would like a government like the Chavez government, but they get a US neo-colonial government that robs them of just about everything (but since the corrupt government was already robbing them, the ordinary citizens haven't really lost anything).

I have heard that Maduro kept things much like they were under Chavez, but I have also heard that Maduro is corrupt and most Venezuelans are now as impoverished as they would be under a US neo-colonial government, so if the US marches in and arrests Maduro, no one will free him from goal and return him to the presidency, but they will figure they'll be no worse off under the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Corina Machado than under Maduro. I also heard that the PRC have found Maduro corrupt, and that he stole the money they gave him. So, unlike Chavez, Maduro has no support from the Venezuelan people, and also no support from the PRC, so he'll be a very easy target for removal.

I have also heard that Maduro has given the US everything they asked for, that he returned all the Venezuelan oil to the US oil companies that are the rightful owners of all the oil on earth, so why remove him? But I understand that the US are still determined to remove him because he was 'friends with Chavez' and they'd prefer the Nobel Laureate Machado, so just giving back all the oil to American oil companies wasn't enough for Maduro to remain in power.

Net: I thought I had a pretty good idea of what is happening in Venezuela, and what was likely to happen, but now I have absolutely no idea.