I’d imagine him gone after his term. Chavez managed to get term limits removed. Italy has a strange relationship between President, Prime Minister, and Parliament so I don’t know how much damage a President can cause without term limits.
I shouldn’t be telling any of you this, but I’m secretly a Ninja Assassin, poised to kill Chavez within the next 8 hours. But don’t tell anyone, I want his security blissfully unaware as I assassinate him with my stealth Ninja skills of star throwing. And, the kicker, I’m actually working out of Cuba. Turns out Raul is kind of pissed that Hugo (pronounced “Huge-o”) Dicko (kind of a pet name he has for Chavez) is stealing his communist thunder. He’s had enough problems stepping out of big bro’s shadow.
The above is entirely satirical, not meant as a threat on anyones life.
Correction.
What an idiot. We can hit him from Alaska.
No, I think the point that he’s claiming is that Chavez is a dictator who held unfree elections in Venezuela.
Yeah. Maybe YOU’RE not actually an assassin, but what about Natalee Holloway? She obviously WAS an American assassin–dispatched to Aruba so that she might rendezvous with nefarious, clog-wearing, Venezuela-hating, Nederlanders who were deep in the pocket of the American imperialists.
But she never counted on her main Dutch contact, the clever and debonair Johan van der Sloot, being a double agent. As Johan seduced Natalee with his dorky Dutch charm, she never suspected that he was working for Chavez–that he was more than willing to silence her–that he in fact would have killed a* million *beautiful American agents–would have done anything at all–to finally achieve his lifelong dream: to become Commissioner of the Venezuelan Double-A Baseball Developmental League. And he knew that was something he could only get from one man…
…Hugo Chavez.
The rest is history–van der Sloot sent Holloway to sleep with the fishes. This elicited a maniacal howl of victory from his master, President Chavez, and irrevocably crushed the CIA’s Dutch-Caribbean assassination network.
So those cites about “terrorism”?
Chavez’s detractors have a habit of being attacked.
A few nights later, these terrorist circles, in a skillfully coordinated effort which involved several hundred people, attacked 21 newspaper printing shops, television and radio stations, in Caracas and Venezuela’s other major cities, under the complacent look of the authorities who are loyal to Chavez. People were wounded, property was destroyed and the damages are worth several million dollars. While all this has been taking place, organized roving bands of Chavez sympathizers have sought out and engaged peaceful members of the opposition, in violent confrontations, which have resulted in one dead and several wounded members of the opposition.
FARC vowing support of Chavez.
This is consistent with a Marxist head of state who has already used a military coup to gain power and will likely use it again in the future.
:smack:
Your source is Alek Boyds site. Boyd is characterized by Chomsky as a “mentally unstable opposition blogger” and Boyd wrote on his blog that he would like to “pour melted silver into their eyes” and decapitate Chavez supporters. Those are his own words. Your source.
So far the only real info I’ve gotten is that Chavez was elected by a clear majority (almost 2/3) in a popular election (85% voter turnout) and that there seems to be no real substance behind the various allusions to him as a “tinpot dictator”. It seems likely that much of the detractors dislike him for his socialist policies and are willing to make up stuff to discredit him.
His FARC support and past military coup is the very definition of tinpot dictator.
1933! 1933! :smack:
National Lampoon once ran a hilarious piece by Christopher Cerf – "Americans United to Beat the Dutch! It’s no longer posted on the NatLamp website, alas. 
Tinpot means of little or no value/credibility. Him supporting FARC makes him neither tinpot or a dictator.
If you have your own definition which goes something like: “Any democratically elected leader who supports a subversive/rebel/terrorist group outside his nations borders”, then I ask you to name one single US president from this century or the former that doesn’t fit that definition.
“tinpot dictator” and/or “terrorist” 
You’d almost think Chavez was the man with the hanging cleats, the claims of WMD, the offshore torturing centre, the deaths of hundreds of thosands on his hands and the record of overthrowing elected governments in central and south America stretching back 40 years. The USA sure has to worry about him.
You’re comparing Chavez to US Presidents and the US political system? Seriously? He rose to power in a military coup. His hobbies are nationalizing private companies and arresting poople who disagrees with him. He has no world credibility.
2 of those 4 claims of yours befit our most previous president, just in case anyone is keeping score
Say what?
Someone got him an Xbox 360 for Christmas and included Mercenaries 2 in the games pack.
Declan
Uh, the sentence before your quote from the same source:
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A career military officer, Chávez founded the left-wing Fifth Republic Movement after orchestrating a failed 1992 coup d’état against former President Carlos Andrés Pérez
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I’d say he’s about due for a replacement.
Yes, the U.S. is teh evil!!!1. Can we digress from the tu quoque and get back to Chavez?
But that failed, he went to prison, then he came back and did it democratically.
You’re intentionally trying to create a false impression. He has always been a democratically elected leader,incidently elected by popular vote rather than corporate interests and in the face of a hostile media - which may make him rather more credible than some other elected leaders in nations with less independent media in the Americas.
Why do you want to press this patent lie?