Chavez has strong support in Venezuela among the poorer people, and his opposition is strongest among the wealthier people. Hmmmm. Doesn't that tell you something, Sawzaw? He has been elected repeatedly because the most economically disadvantaged people in his own country figure he's on their side. Guess who isn't on their side: large American corporate interests and the CIA and the rich people, who attempted to topple him in a coup. You seem quite sad that they failed to do so. This suggests to me that you prefer coups to democratic elections. Is that right?

Would you prefer it if it was happening in your own society? A coup, I mean? I don't think you would, I think you'd prefer an election....but I guess it doesn't matter when the coup and the bloodshed is happening in Iran or Venezuela or Iraq or Cuba or some other small country that isn't cooperating financially with the great American Overseas Empire, does it?