Following the United States’s dramatic capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro earlier this month, New York City, where authorities are holding the autocrat, emerged as an epicenter of pro-Maduro sentiment in America. Such a development is unsurprising given the New York labor movement’s long-standing alignment with Caracas.

Maduro’s regime, for instance, has used New York labor leaders in an attempt to launder its international image, and union officials were all too happy to assist.