I missed that news item about Clinton and his minions getting kicked out of office for this, let alone getting any major political heat for it. Seems only the freepers cared that Clinton sold off American national security for political gain and campaign cash. And note - I dont blame the Chinese for trying, I blame Clinton for being corrupt enough to sell out our national security for gain (as he did on several issues!).
Anyway, Clinton handpicked Ehud Barak as Israeli PM with Carville advising his campaign, intervened and made Arafat a leader of PA as opposed to just PLO leader, invaded Haiti and removed a government, eliminated serbian sovereinty over Kosovo and in the process displaced thousands of serbs ... all this direct and heavyhanded Clinton interventionism in the last decade, and you are looking for faint fingerprints in an internal crisis in South America? Hilarious.
You are missing the obvious in your search for hidden skeletons: Economic interests and the (shrinking) middle-class *in* Venezuala dont want the would-be castroite Chavez ruining their economy and stealing their property and turning their industries into socialist fiefdoms. THAT is where the opposition is coming from, that is where the money is coming from. This is the life-and-death struggle of economic opportunity and freedom for these people.
And you better hope the opponents win. If they lose, they will migrate to Miami like the Cuban Americans did when Castro took over in 1960 in Cuba and hound you for decades on this point! :-)
Fine. Next time elections are up they shouldn't vote for him. That is how things work in democracies. You think that the above groups should somehow be able to decide who governs Latin America without input from the rest of the population? You sould like a Latin American dictator for suggesting that the citizens' votes do not count.