One thing that’s always true of socialist regimes is that the people at the top get very wealthy in the midst of redistributing wealth to others. That’s definitely true in Venezuela where the wealthy children of top leaders, known as the “bolichicos,” spend their time jet-setting around the world while most of the country has been on the “Maduro diet.” But it appears the bolichicos went too far last month, at least for many in Venezuela. A group of them decided to ignore warnings about the coronvirus and hold a party on a private island complete with prostitutes flown in from Europe. Now an unknown number of these idiots have tested positive for the coronavirus:

It’s not clear how many people got sick last month on the Los Roques archipelago. But a raucous party that became a cluster of infections has raised concerns at the highest level of the government and drawn condemnation from Venezuelans locked down at home for weeks.

“There was a party, on an island, and practically everyone at the party is testing positive,” embattled leader Nicolás Maduro said on state TV March 20.

Three days later, as embarrassing Instagram posts leaked out under the hashtag #CoronavirusParty, he downplayed it.

“Who is going to criticize a party? They didn’t know they were sick,” said Maduro, who was indicted by the U.S. last month on narcotics charges.

It makes sense that Maduro would downplay this. These are his people:

Among the young revelers was Jesús Amoroso, son of Maduro’s top anti-corruption official, who has been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for allegedly undermining Venezuela’s democracy.

The two people said Venezuelan prostitutes from Madrid and London were flown in just before air travel was closed to Spain, one of the nations hit hardest by the pandemic.

Here are some of the images that appeared on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B92vldeJ0To/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9rRc6tAMzs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9uPGEGgzQY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

El gobierno trata la fiesta en los Roques como un chisme y no como un problema de salud pública..
– Sabe quienes asistieron
– Sabe como se trasladaron
– Sabe de quienes son hijos
– Sabe dia y horas de jolgorio
… Sabe todo..Pero no informa porque son hijos de sus corruptos pic.twitter.com/AovcE4lh0H

— Oswaldo Lugo (@OswaldoLugo15) March 21, 2020

Fiesta en Los Roques dejó decenas de infectados con COVID-19 https://t.co/x7ZmWWwRgT #TáchiraNews #24Marzo #Fiesta #LosRoques #VirusParty #Venezuela #Contagiados #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/bdrXPDZjRd

— Táchira News (@TachiraNews) March 25, 2020

There are a few more photos in this slideshow. The audio is a leaked description of the party from someone who attended, at least that’s what I gather. I never learned Spanish unfortunately.

Se filtra audio de unos de los asistentes a la #CoronavirusParty en Los Roques. Cuando habla de “Bimbo” se refiere a Alinson Chacón. Habla de una semana de rumba tras la cual han dado varios de los asistentes positivos. https://t.co/62oN8vDirl

— Anonymous (@Anonsvene11) March 22, 2020

Eventually, 18 people connected to this party were arrested at a subsequent house party that happened a week later:

⚠️ Estas son las 18 personas detenidas por realizar una fiesta en Los Palos Grandes durante la cuarentena, dos de ellos dieron positivo en #COVID19. pic.twitter.com/F6HOZ3TgbX

— HispanoPost (@hispanopost) March 31, 2020

Some of those detained at the 2nd party look a bit ashamed:

FILTRA VÍDEO del momento de la DETENCIÓN de los invitados CHAVISTAS. LUIS ORZETTI y DANIEL RODRÍGUEZ estaban en TRATAMIENTO por el virus🦠porq habían resultado POSITIVOS en la anterior en Los Roques de “EL DUKE,el hijo del CHAVISTA ELVIS AMOROSO pic.twitter.com/kF2tXViLhY

— Gapacheco201 (@Gapacheco201) April 1, 2020

But one of the attendees didn’t care. He posted the photo below with the message “Suck it gossipers.”

https://twitter.com/Luiselenu/status/1242066708115972096

It’s good to be close to the revolutionaries at the top. Not only are you likely to be rich and never need to work, you also won’t be held accountable for anything you do.