I wish you people would start your own forum, seriously. Just who in hell are you people?    And in regards the other posters' assertion about communism,  no , Chavez isn't a communist. He's a Bolivarianist. Bolivarianist is a South-American movement that is somewhat similar to ideologies such as national socialism and fascism but far less radical. They represent both social changes and the creation of a self-sufficient pan-South-American state free from European and North-American interference. Chavez is a supporter of social-democracy. Just because he uses the word socialism doesn't mean he's a communist.