2005 - I hope Chavez continues his lunatic behavior - sooner or later he will either be overthrown, or will piss enough others off to get his butt kicked out by foreign entities.
1960 - I hope Castro continues his lunatic behavior - sooner or later he will either be overthrown, or will piss enough others off to get his butt kicked out by foreign entities.
My prediction: the 100,000 AKs Chavez just bought are going to be given to "popular forces" or "milicias," who are going to try to turn Venezuela into the next Cuba--with oil.
Hugo has brought in Cuban advisors to help with this process of turning Venezuela into a socialist/communist tyranny. Once this process is far along, it's damn hard to reverse.
The coup plotters had their chance to do an "Allende" on Chavez, and they blew it. They won't get another chance.