Chavez has pretty good reason to hate the US, pretty much for some of the same reasons that I quote "hate" (a strong and inappropriate word) the US government...
Chavez has stood up to the United States and he's done it primarily demanding that Venezuelan oil be used to help the Venezuelan people ... well, they didn't like that in the United States. Yes there have been the (suspicious coups) riots and all that, but it's clear that the people weren't behind those. The people have been so strongly behind Chavez that they've been able to overcome the presence of corruption from the North -- which is a first for Latin American countries.
Chavez, ofcourse, is just as corrupt as the next leader in political office today. I have read an article where he says that Communism is not an appropriate system, I suppose you could call him some kind of socialist ... but it's not easy to distinguish. He has definitely been propagandised by the West, though, as I think is evidenced by many of the posts above me.
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