This Chavez is completely off the media radar in this country. Too bad Americans are so ignorrant of his existence and agenda. He is going to be more dangerous than Fidel was, because he has his own means, and does not have to live off Soviet charity.
He is nothing less than OPEC and China's version of Fidel. As far his beiong the Reincarnation of Bolivar, probably be more accurate to claim him as the reincarnation of Bolivar's dog. He is, at any rate, a real SOB!
IMHO (now there's a laugh) it's probably a better use of our time to take him out rather than, or at least before, Saddam Hussein.