Numerous reports over the years have together corroborated that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro lives on an army base and sleeps inside of a bunker rather than in the traditional presidential Palacio de Miraflores like past leaders of the socialist South American country did.
The arrangement was first revealed in 2017 when Venezuelan journalist Vladimir Kislinger revealed Maduro uses a bunker in the Special Unit for Security and Protection of State Personalities (UESPPE) within Caracas’s Fort Tiuna for protection against potential military uprisings or aerial attacks. Spanish newspaper El Español reported in 2017 that top Maduro regime officials including then-Vice President El Aissami, ministers, and cabinet members live in secure residences within the military compound, benefiting from military protection, unrestricted food supplies from the Armed Forces food center, and healthcare access. The reasons for this are self-evident: The Maduro regime lords over a country riven by bloody criminal violence and grinding poverty they’ve done nothing to meaningfully improve – arguably even exacerbated – and the only real way for them to remain safe from the rabble is to be surrounded by hundreds, maybe thousands, of armed troops at all times.
In completely unrelated news, the Atlantic reports that Trump Reichsmarchall Stephen Miller, dog-murdering Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, binge-drinking date rapist “War” Secretary Pete Hegseth, below-average-height Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, and “another senior White House official, whom The Atlantic is not naming because of security concerns related to a specific foreign threat,” are all living on various military installations in and around DC rather than spending their own money renting or buying private housing.