Capital Flight

Capital Flight Digital collage, 2025 – Honys Torres

Capital Flight is a fierce parody of Latin American populism. The artwork features Fidel Castro—the self-proclaimed king of communism—and Hugo Chávez dressed as the Chapulín Colorado, both seated on a toilet, symbolizing the political “disasters” that marked their regimes. The gesture is grotesque yet precise: a direct critique of mismanagement of state resources, ideological manipulation, and the systematic impoverishment of their populations.

The CLAP food box, emblem of the Venezuelan regime, appears as a symbol of hunger and control. Created in 2016, the program was widely denounced for corruption, clientelism, and political exploitation. The piece also references the Cuba–Venezuela alliance, which since 1999 forged a revolutionary axis built on grandiose rhetoric and collapsing economies.

Diamonds, winged dollar bills, and a CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS tape slash across the image as witnesses to the looting. Ronald McDonald with a hammer and sickle, and Darth Vader with dollar-sign glasses, complete the ideological carnival where 21st-century socialism masquerades as spectacle.

Capital Flight is not just a critique—it’s a pop-style autopsy of revolutionary failure.

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