Are you kidding? Go check out DU. They love the guy and can rationalize everything he does. Those people are scary.
By the way, what Chavez is doing is much like Hitler, etal. He's creating an enemy for him to rail against to consolidate power. What better target than the US, who is far to busy with other concerns around the world to bother with them.
I was pointing out that their silence reveals the hypocrisy of the Left. They claim democracy as important, but the desires of their heart are really a fascist superstate that squashes all dissenting thought. Easy examples are their behavior when speakers they disagree with show up to schools...they do their best to shout them down and disrupt any dissenting views. Or their desires to bring back methods to silence radio shows that are conservative. The Left does NOT believe in freedom of speech, nor do they believe if democracy, and their slavish appreciation of Chavez is simply further proof of that.