[familyop]

Ping! Venezuela will probably work with both countries. The Axis of Evil is growing.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Chavez has been steadily working toward this goal for a very long time. ________________________ ***.... Chavez addressed the issue during his homecoming speech, insisting that his popularity ``would never fall because Chavez is no longer Chavez. Chavez is the people.''

Increasingly, such rhetoric is frustrating key Chavez supporters - and has created unprecedented friction within his political coalition.

``Change in Venezuela can no longer be an expectation or a campaign promise. It has to be expressed in public policy,'' Felipe Mujica, president of the government-aligned Movement Toward Socialism party, said in a recent interview.

In a major break in the ranks, Mujica's party accused Chavez of inciting unrest when Chavez threatened in May to grab more power by declaring a ``state of emergency'' designed to fight crime and raise living standards.

Chavez has yet to make good on that threat, but he stunned many by announcing he is creating a new political movement to refresh his bond with the people. Chavez gave the new ``Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement'' the vague task of organizing Venezuelans into ``patriotic circles'' to ``defend the revolution.''

Shocked leaders of Chavez's Fifth Republic Movement scrambled to deny he was abandoning his party.

But Guillermo Garcia Ponce, the new movement's head, said the Fifth Republic relied too heavily on the president's charisma and didn't bother to amass grass-roots support.

``The president feels the need to give a new impulse, a new ideological air to the Bolivarian Revolution,'' Garcia Ponce said, referring to the socio-economic changes he is pushing under the name of the 19th-century South American liberator Simon Bolivar.

The new movement has the same name as an underground group Chavez led as a lieutenant colonel in the 1980s - and used in 1992 to spearhead an unsuccessful coup that catapulted him to national fame.

Congress President Willian Lara admits the Fifth Republic Movement was barely an organized political party when Chavez won the presidency in 1998. ...*** (June 2001 article)

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b25296d3822.htm

[TapTheSource]

Notice how the Communists (Soviets/Cubans/Red Chinese) are bringing up their agents (i.e. Cavez) through the ranks of the military in Latin America. They learned this lesson the hard way from their failed revolution in Chile (courtesy of Pinochet).