I believe this will be the trend. Hugo will have to extend an olive branch or go down in flames from the Venezuelan people. He is the one full of hatred, not the US or the Venezuelan people.

The slightest push from Washington with sanctions and the lid would blow off down there within 30 days in my opinion and Chavez hates us even more because he knows "gringo dollars" is what he has to have for now. It will take at least a decade to get off the necessity of the gringo dollar. And he would have to know what he is doing for that to work.