Well, there's one born every minute. And dictators certainly know how to attract them.
Aside from this rather pathetic woman's story, however, I think that Chavez is definitely using this moment - when there is unrest, but the opposition still doesn't seem to have any clear plan of how to get rid of him - to entrench himself more deeply.
Having goon squads of revolutionary " wannabees" may seem, at first glance, somewhat insignificant. But these people can nonetheless have a very paralyzing effect on dissent, if only because they manage to turn every event into chaos.