I'm trying to find a silver lining on this. There is a strong chance that new owners will turn against Chavez in the future, sincethat socialist land reform is 'progressive.'
First, the socialists will confiscate foreign-owned land and large estates.
Next, the small farmers will be 'encouraged' to join government-owned cooperatives and to sell their foodstuffs only to government-owned warehouses.
Finally, the small farmers who fail to become government serfs will be called 'CIA agents, counterrevolutionaries, and petit bourgeois' and persecuted.
See Soviet Union, Cuba, etc.
I am looking for a silver lining too, but Chavez is getting a lot of help from Castro and he has proven to be very durable. The are Cuban cadres throughout Venezuela and it is going to be very hard to organize any real effort to oust Chavez. The best opportunity was lost when the coup failed. Fellow Traveler Jimma Carter has ALSO legitimized Chavez.