Venezuelan’s should be worried

The people of Venezuela should stand up and vote next week against the proposed changes to their constitution.  It appears likely that they will but they should be worried about what comes next.  If history is our guide then after Hugo Chavez loses the vote he will start implementing it anyway.  When power hungry dictators like Chavez think that the people are rejecting them then they begin to move forward with wholesale takeover.

Chavez will likely implore more hit squads, people that oppose him, lead opposition against him, will find themselves killed or imprisoned.  He will blame the US and probably more to control the output of oil to the US.  As Chavez moves towards a full socialist society what will we do to stop him?  Chavez is much more dangerous than Castro, Castro had nothing other than cigars to export so it was easy to isolate him.  Chavez is different that he has something the world needs, oil.  Worse yet, he knows we can’t isolate him like we did Castro.  Even if we try to isolate him we will run into trouble with OPEC because the rest of the OPEC countries would likely go against increasing their production to offset blocking Venezuelan oil.

Does Bush have what it takes to deal with Chavez, maybe a better question would be do any of the current Presidential candidates have what it takes to remove Chavez?  We know that none of the Democrats do because he is creating in Venezuela what they hope to create here.