From NPR’s All Things Considered
Commentator Ana Flaster’s family left Cuba years ago. She describes how all of her relatives are obsessed with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. They’ve observed that Chavez follows Fidel Castro’s playbook for creating distractions, which makes sense because Castro is Chavez’s mentor. But there’s one big difference between the two socialist leaders — Chavez has oil, and that makes his rhetoric more powerful and scary.