If anyone wondered about the true nature of President Chavez and his policies you better get to see this award winning documentary "The revolution will not be televised" it's available as torrent on the net as well: http://www.chavezthefilm.com/index_ex.htm
He is simplistic, old school socialist (although playing with the idea of microloans for the small business). Also a bit demagougish, but certainly not a bloody mass murderer as those guys sitting in the Washington DC these days..
This is quite unique documentary because the foreign film crew was there exactly during the Bushite sponsored coup to kick him out so you can watch it almost live unfolding..
What's most interesting, you can notice his aide with small suitcase rushing everywhere behind him - it very much resembled the docus about Russian and other leaders.. Since it's pretty unrealistic to expect Venezuela army/navy having some advanced ballistic missiles or subs with some long range stuff or whatever, my conclusion therefore is that they might have doomsday device planted in some crucial oil industry facilities..
That would also help explain the failed coup.. If the Chavez boys had
the suitcase the contras where marginalized and the President guys
bought enough time to get their house in order in the meantime and win..
List of doomsday device equiped oil producing countries>>
- Saudi Arabia rumored to have these in place
- Venezuela speculation
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