Chavez didn’t miraculously come into power, and neither did the bus driver. They were positioned. This is what happened to Latin America and it is slowly happening in EU and the US.
We are using the same voting machines as Venezuela
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ballot.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/16/1100628/-It-s-the-Voting-Machines-Not-the-Voters#
Yep. I doubt think Chavez won that last election, I think those machines were programmed to invert the results or something