This should be alarming, right?

[Jester]

His minority of actual support are not on the level, or mass of Chavistas.

I think that's correct. Venezuela is poor and unequal, it's much easier to sell the idea that "the people" have been rooked by a "crooked" elite backed by a "lying" media - not least because there's more truth to the allegations.

But the mode of doing business is a) troubling, and b) corrosive.

-Jester