[Lillie_Steins]

Oh come on give me a goddamn break. Chavez is a basket case loon that is capitalizing on the uneducated majority and it's hatred of the upper class. His military is a small little puppy compared to Colombia's. If Venezuela ever goes to war with Colombia over supporting the FARC, Colombia will whip Venezuela's so called military "might" so easily it will be like a dog eating a pigeon.

Chavez is your basic standard ego maniacal dictator who is only good at embarrassing his country and his people. His statements about the world are amount to his country being more isolated and the economy going nowhere.

He might have oil but it will take a long time for him to be able to properly extract it. Putin is having the same problem, they need western companies but they don't want to give away any money which they want for their own pocket or pocket of their own cronies.

Tyrants always use some dissatisfaction with the status quo to cease power for themselves. They think they are Gods which have a right to do as they please. But their rule always ends the same, with blood and innocents killed.