[Army Air Corps]

Yikes, there is an image that I did not need.

On a serious note, I am curious just long the other Chavistas will be Hugo's little puppies.

[StJacques]

The other Chavistas will not get to succeed to any degree comparable to what Hugo has achieved because everyone else is watching Chavez and gasping in horror. In Bolivia, Evo Morales has been forced to, at least publicly state, that he accepts the "2/3 vote" requirement for passing individual clauses of the new Constitution the country's Constituent Assembly is now writing. The issue of autonomy for the four "departments" (i.e. "states") of the eastern part of Bolivia has also grown in its importance. And here we see Rafael Correa in Ecuador facing a legislature telling him that they will ponder his proposed constitutional "reforms" and that there is no need to call a Constituent Assembly.

And I don't even need to look at Daniel Ortega who is completely hamstrung from doing anything sweeping given the legislature he faces.