chavez and his party stopped giving their oli resources virtuall for free to american corpoations. there is very little the powerfull in america hate more than that. they has manipulated an elite class to sell out thier nations precious non renewable resources by giving only that sdmall american supporting class the benifits of the oil revenues.

i wouldn't doubt american leader would kill chavez if they got the chance, but i haven't seen any evidence of it happening. pat robertson openly advocated assination of chavez. robertson is part of the fascist religious right. they also funded the genocidal government of rios mont in guatemala, which was responsible for the murd3r of a quarter of a million natives. this for just wanting land rights. so americans can do incredibly violent things in the third world, usualyy through proxies. btw robertosn admitted his involvement with mont, but said it was a mistake. genocide is a mistake, sorry pat genoide and mass murder are crimes against humanity.

america has been the worlds greatest exporter of terrorism since vietnam(where they used widespread chemical warfare--can you say weapons of mass destruction?). of course they hate any opposition, and demonize any opposition leader. would they kill him? in a minute if they could! shesh they ignore four hundred murders on pine ridge reservation during the war on the sioux nations. murder only bothers them if its against their own.

i do hope chavez's party can continue to keep the oil benefits at home and give them to the people and not just the elite.

as to his governments economic troubles--the usa has done everything they can yto undermine the venezualian economy, just short of the hatefull embargo on cuba. and did anyone know there has been a world wide recession/depression since the war monger financial elites got cought robbing the banks and the public and the fraudulent financial syatem almost collapsed?