Let the Gulag roundups begin.
This will really increase Hollyweird’s love of El Pendejo Loco.
Sad thing is, it will! For whatever cockamamie reason, this seems to be exactly what the Liberal Hollywood crowd seeks in life. It is as if they all read 1984 and decided that lifestyle was okay, so long as they were the ruling party.
Chavez openly seizes the assets of private industry operating in his nation, mugs with celebs, crushes protestors, pulls the plug on opposition TV. I think he's seeing a void with Fidel Castro passing on, and he's the guy to fill it. Dictator? Check. Murderous to opposition? Check. Popular with elitist liberals? Check. Yeah, he's "Fidel 2".
Nancy Pelosi is probably drooling over this, trying to decide whether she should visit Venezuela or Iran first to pay her respects to her heroes.