In Venezuela, in a lot of ways, in terms of the effect of the pandemic, you see a collapsed health care system that's led to a kind of resurgence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. Hundreds of people are allegedly dying due to barriers in accessing health care.
There was a very serious collapse of the health care system even prior to the COVID pandemic, which has only been made worse. Certainly, you see a very similar playbook, where vaccination has been marred by corruption allegations and a lack of transparency in terms of who gets the vaccines and what the distribution is like. You see the government of Venezuela using the COVID-19 pandemic in order to further restrict space for civil society.
You see, in the Maduro government, so much of the same playbook that you see again and again in repressive states, around the pandemic and the use of the opportunities that the pandemic creates in order to further restrict people's individual rights and freedoms.