That's generally the case with dictators. Only Taiwan grew from a dictatorship into a working democracy. Maduro is nothing but a dictator. Venezuela has insane amounts of oil, gas and gold, it should be an extremely rich oil state like Qatar or the UAE but Marudo prefers to fill his own pockets and starve his people while money is worth less then the paper it's printed on.
My guy, the reason they aren't rich is because of US embargoes on their oil. The type of oil they produce is dirty and extremely expensive to refine, The US is the closest trading partner with refining capabilities that their crude oil requires.
What you don't know is TW's minority ruling party DPP (after 8 years' corruptions) has been becoming the new dictatorship.
DPP has more than enuf tax payers' money to buy cyber armies, put money in its own pocket, and buy US support thru undelivered weaponry purchase.
DPP’s incumbent president Lai was once labeled as CCP insider by DPP former president Tsai’s cyber army, for he intended to run against her in 2020 presidential primary (https://youtu.be/lNaui-b0Dpk&). A DPP-certified CCP insider. LOL.
DPP, which got minority vote in the president and Congress in 2024, has hundreds of billions of Taiwan dollars in corruption cases, but it is judicially persecuting Taiwan's third largest party, the TPP, in a finicky way. Google “民進黨 司法迫害 site*.tw” then click the News tab.
Google “wikileaks Taiwan” to know now minority (40% of votes) ruling party DPP’s politicians have been using anti-China and fake independence (which US does not grant) as apparatuss for election purposes (Taiwan’s Netanyahu?). The most powerful faction of the DPP - New Trend (which William Lai belongs) -- had established a secret communication channel with the CCP as early as 1997, before the first president of the DPP, Chen Shui-bian did, who was put to prison after he stepped down with the help of corruption evidence US provided (owning undeclared real estate in New York City with his wife taking bribes, claiming to be funds for TW independence).
At my old company I worked really closely with a coworker who was Venezuelan and he loathed Maduro. Saw him as a dictator and unrightful president that was creating problems in the country
Seeing which other leaders support or reject this has been telling and I hope the voters in those countries are paying attention. Boric and Lacalle respect the rule of law, Castro and Arce do not.