Venezuela is a police state, policed at the local level by “neighborhood committees” and policed at upper levels by the military and under the eyes of spies, all of this coordinated by Cuba and even staffed by Cubans. The neighborhood committee members aren’t Cubans, but they do it because they get a bigger food ration.
The people are disarmed and there is no way they could resist without weapons. Interestingly, Maduro made his own guards disarm, because he obviously feared that they would shoot him.
This was either a set-up or terribly botched intelligence.
In a sense. It is not East Germany so far.