El Opinador Compulsivo

Maria Anastasia:

That Mr. Chávez has fallen from grace and that a majority of Venezuelans now want him gone is not hard to fathom. But even if it is true, he is not likely to go down without a fight and he is in a far better position to prevail using force than he was five years ago. He has built up support inside the military, armed a street militia and refined intelligence tactics using Cuban personnel. Last week he threatened to call the masses down from the slums on the hills around Caracas to defend the Revolution. Some Venezuelans are worried that he is trying to provoke his opponents to move against him so that he can respond with force.