Pretending that nobody can learn from, nor should anybody notice, what happens elsewhere and supporting whatever "democratic socialist" you can is more like it. IT doesn't matter if he holds the reigns of the news agencies, it doesn't matter reports of violence against protesters and opposition supporters... nope, the news agency from Venezuela says it's all good so BAC thinks it is all good...
Aahh, but you forget that the news agencies were part of the former power structure, the opposition that made no bones about hating losing out in a fair election. The "violence against protesters and opposition supporters" reported not only by these bias folk, but by an American media that reported an attempted coupe BEFORE it happened. Chavez is not perfect, but those trying to undermine him are not innocent, honest folk.
So far nobody suggested doing anything to or about Hugo, yet you straw man standard neocon reponse to anything that threatens their dogma it up and pretend it means we should invade or pay the opposition or some other nasty thing we did in the past.