[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.

[Viennacon]

Not to mention he can shuttle in extra military forced from his satellite states. This man is a filthy tyrant. Here is what his state controlled media said about the challenger, Capriles.

“This is our enemy, the Zionism that Capriles today represents ... Zionism, along with capitalism, are responsible for 90% of world poverty and imperialist wars.”

Hmmm. I can see parallels between the Venezuelan media and our own.