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This is the other side of the coin. If the opposition doesn't have a leader, or if they are not prepared to fight to keep him, Chavez will not be moved out of power.

I hate to bring it up, but they already overthrew him once, and the result was not a happy one. The Chavists were prepared to fight, and the opposition was not. If the Chavist officers are willing to rise up, and the opposition officers want to remain politically neutral... if the Chavist crowds are going to go out in the streets armed and the opposition crowds want peace, its over. As it was when Chavez was briefly arrested.

When Chavez took power in the beginning, he announced from the inauguration podium that the constitution was suspended, he announced that the Supreme Court and the Congress were disbanded, and like puppies they packed their things and went home. They were not prepared to fight to defend the constitutional order, and they lost it. If they are not prepared to fight to restore it, they are not going to get it back.

Bump!

They've seen the Devil and he's scaring the hell out of them, as he should. They need to strengthen ther resolve to remove him by getting behind a candidate.

All that you have said is very true. One of the reasons that the overthrow of Chavez didn't succeed last time was that nobody could make a decision fast enough, and our support was tepid in part because there was nobody to support.