[neverdem]

He has a lot of support amongst Venezuela's poor (which is a majority of the people) so it would probably be a hornet's nest if we did invade.

I don't see us invading. He's a popular socialist. The middle and upper classes need to lay low with their weapons until the socialists really screw it up, then they should have a revolt IMHO.

[Zeroisanumber]

I don't see us invading. He's a popular socialist. The middle and upper classes need to lay low with their weapons until the socialists really screw it up, then they should have a revolt IMHO.

They won't want to take that chance, and neither do we. Rolling the dice with a major oil supplier is too chancy for us to risk, rolling the dice when your own country is on the line is unthinkable.