Mocking the situation helps nobody. But Venezuelans had fair and free elections not that long ago. The precursors to these policies were wilfully elected into office by the populace. That confers at least some responsibility; more than in the cases of kings, colonisers, invaders or revolutionaries.
Venezuelan elections have been widely critized as shams and have been largely boycotted by opposition parties in Venezuela.
Venezuela has significant oil wealth but has been ruled by a corrupt and autocratic single party for decades that has squandered and embezzled that wealth.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-18288430
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You can trust it because you have enough observers, whom are indeed important to select well (covering all the biases). They monitor the voting and counting to make cheating on a large scale a large conspiracy, which by definition must have large public support.