>Most alarmingly, Chavez has churned class antagonisms by demonizing the "ran
>cid oligarchy" and "rotten elites" of the old political order. His
>rhetoric--in a country where unemployment, crime and poverty are among the
>worst in Latin America--as well as his warning that the "revolution" may
>turn violent, have occasionally brought precisely such results.
This is hilarious. Chavez is guilty of stoking class antagonisms in an oil-rich country where, as the NYT article pointed out, 80% of the population lives under an undefined poverty line. Clearly the counterrevolution is already well underway.
Doug