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The recent book "The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela" by Brian Nelson is a great place to start. The Economist review summarises the key points:
http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=13813460
Book deatils and other reviews here:
http://www.amazon.com/Silence-Scorpion-Against-Chavez-Venezuela/dp/1568584180/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250549874&sr=8-1
Well, I suggest you check out this book: The Silence and the Scorpion. And here is a review of the book, where I first heard about it, by the Economist (it's premium content so I had to find it at this link). Basically, Chavez has already demonstrated his despotic credentials by using violence.
The true ignorance is in believing he has yet to exercise violent oppression against his citizens.
[Edit: removed "simple-minded" before global left; unnecessary insult, irrespective of my feelings about the individuals who have cheered Venezuela's disaster on for the past 17 years.]
This is an important film, one not too many persons outside of those with a personal connection to Venezuela have paid much attention to. It was a lot easier for the ideological global left to believe in Chavez' propaganda, buy a Che Guevara t-shirts and think of themselves as radical, arguing that Venezuela was a utopia which the US was hellbent on destroying.
Chavez is gone, and he knew he was leaving behind a train wreck. He chose Nicolas Maduro for the sole purpose of making things so bad that he'll comparatively look like a hero in 50 or 100 years, possibly inspiring the next "Chavez."
Unfortunately, the majority of global media still believes that the United States supported the events leading to Chavez' brief ouster, and the film helps to expose that this assumption is untrue. A deeper inspection of the spontaneous uprising against Chavez is the topic of the book "The Silence and the Scorpion," http://www.amazon.com/Silence-Scorpion-Against-Chavez-Venezuela/dp/1568584180 which I highly recommend to anyone seeking to learn the truth which contradicts the propaganda.