Yes, Chavez was a huge Castro fanatic and the Cuban intelligence has invaded the Venezuelan military in great part. The two of us used to be enemies, when Castro got into power, he dreamed of taking control of our oil in order to fund his communist revolutions all over Latin America but our president of back then, Romulo Betancourt told him to fuck off, so we got into a fight with the Cuban guerrilla that ended with a lot of dead on both sides. We still won in the end and Cuba ended up broke, but Castro never gave up on trying to control the country. After Betancourt and his friend Raul Leoni left the presidency, the fightings against the communist guerrilla started getting less common and they infiltrated our own military over time. This eventually caused the 92 coup attemps in the country which were led by Chavez in order to murder president Carlos Andres but he failed because the country was quickly recovering back then. Also, Arturo Sosa tried to argue in favour of the communists and he was something like a teacher to Chavez back in his days.

Despite this and the fact that Chavez was put into jail, the country started getting worse again because of Caldera reaching power who was the baptist godfather of Chavez, he ended up causing a banking crisis and Chavez himself eventually made it into power so Castro had his revenge on us, thanks to one of our own ironically.

A lot of the socialists in Latin America form a massive drug cartel of sorts, which tends to fight against the CIA's own so that's why the socialists are hostile towards the CIA and they tend to follow their own conspiracy theories against it blaming it for all of Latin America's problems.

I call this political left wing team made up of drug dealing socialists the Castro communist left.