The really fascinating thing about the Chavez situation is this: his opposition is from the wealthier classes, the media owners, the business people...and his support is from...the poor! Amazing, isn't it? Who ever heard of a revolution launched by the very people who are benefiting most from society??? (the well-to-do)

This alone should make it plainly evident that this is a made-in-America attempt to bring down a Latin American government. The only other really notable leaders I can recall in Latin America (since Zapata and Benito Juarez) who have institued policies that were more popular with the poor than with the wealthy were: Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Fidel Castro in Cuba, and Salvador Allende in Chile. The USA used paramilitary means to attack all 3 of them, and only Castro's government survived those attempts...so far.

Chavez is now on the hit list...and he has oil. Lots of it. So watch Venezuela. Chavez either knuckles under to the big boys (the multinationals) or they find a way to checkmate him and bring his government down.

- LH