Just months after the dramatic U.S. mission to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, The Epoch Times went into Venezuela undercover.

Venezuelans on the ground describe “a crack of light” following the U.S. intervention, but the socialist state remains omnipresent and repressive.

Will Venezuela return to its glory days when it was one of the richest countries in Latin America, or will Hugo Chavez’s socialist legacy continue to plague the nation?