Chavez is not a nationalist in any way or form.    Does a nationalist expropriate (steal) productive properties/business to only be sucked dry by his goons or turned into shanty gettos?  Does a nationalist scare away foreign investment and makes the economy depend even more on the crude oil exports?  Does a nationalist give money away to other countries while his own country's infrastructure and industry is falling apart?  Does a nationalist hold Marxist-left-wing ideals?  Does a nationalist increases imports while destroying local production?  Does a nationalist make people depend more and more on the government?  Does a nationalist run a welfare state full of free-bys, where government is supposed and expected to take care of you from cradle to grave?    It just baffles me how some people here fall for Chavez rhetoric just because he says something against the US government or the Jews. Specially when his mentor is the Cuban Jew Fidel Castro.    He's not even accidentally helping in any way, if anything he's driving Venezuelan Mestizos out of Venezuela and into the U.S., take a look at Doral, Florida, better known as Doralzuela... Did Castro help on keeping Cuban Mestizos in Cuba? Take a trip to Miami, Florida, and you'll see...