[Viennacon]

Chavez will remain in power. I’m sure of it. He’ll rig the vote. Any political dissent is crushed, and I’ve seen the photographs of his socialist thugs doing the crushing.

[Nateman]

He’ll rig the vote.

He's been stealing them for awhile. Chavez tried to help an Honduran thug steal an illegal initiative . After the attempt was stopped by the legislature they examined the voting machines. Sure enough, the fix was already in. Obama, of course, was on the side of the thug.I suspect the same trick was already used by Reid to steal his Nevada election.

[DanMiller]

Chavez may try to remain in power and things seem likely get rather bloody. A contact in Venezuela suggests that he will have the support of about half of the military should he try to do so. The Venezuelan military, as I saw it during a few years there back in the early 2000's, was as competent as the Russian military was during the years leading up to WWI: as incompetent, corrupt and dysfunctional as one can imagine. I think things have deteriorated since then.