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Chavez's scheme of giving scheap oil, specifically heating oil, is quite ingenious. With this he can say "you know poor Americans, what is your government doing for you? What are your oil companies doing? Look at what CITGO is doing, look at what I am doing!" On the whole it gives the American public a reason to be prochavez and thus hampers the US government's ability to hamper Chavez. He has also announced this deal will head to the UK next year, but the UK is going more left recently.
Again it is easier to start revolutions on the bottom of the imperialist chain then at the top which he is trying to do, according to your statement. Is it because with his "nationalism" he believes that since a large portion of latin Americans are within the United States that they are not conditioned and will follow exactly what he thinks with this gesture? The problem is that the United States will have a reactionary revolution before a Soviet revolution and it may happen more then once. We have never seen the Top of the Imperialist chain turn to socialism, without thinking of capital first.

If we have learned anything about history is that dogmatic governments don't go down quietly, and I believe what will happen is a series of Revolutions and counter revolutions for a extended period of time (even more then the early russian revolutions). So to me going strait for the Top of the Imperialist chain, where the people are the most conditioned to believe in the Capitalist system blindly is the most foolish when you have plenty of other countries on the bottom of the Imperialist chain that would have less revolutions and counter revolutions then that of Nations on the Top of the Imperialist Chain.

Chavez is a lot like Castro, hell he had close relations with Castro prior to his coup back in the day. First he is a nationalist "Free venezuela from foreign companies.. land to the people" etc.. Then he changes "I am a socialist"... Then he changes again, progressing further and further as it becomes socially acceptable.

yes of course land to the people, but lets still have private business, and private property. It takes time granted but this "revolution cannot even be counted as a liberal communist revolution for even they believe that the soviet system takes over and is created from the bottom up not the top down.

Through his policies of buying up bankrupted capitalist enterprises and turning them over to workers to run, and by forming farming co-ops, and by taking steps to abolish the institution of rent (by making renters owners after a period of 10 years), and by setting up what are known as "boliviarian circles" which are essentially workers' soviets with a different name. I must deem Chavez to be a socialist.

By making "renters owners" ? That deals with private property correct?

Soviets are created from the bottom up same as Trade Unionism. Creating soviets from the top down shows me great concern to chavez's "socialist" revolution because the soviets were not in place prior to him coming to power.

Now I am not a big fan of Castro either but were the soviets created before or after the revolution in Cuba?

Chavez also doesn't need to be a dictator because he already effectively is. His party "The Fifth Republic Movement" and its allies in MAS "Movement towards Socialism" and the Venezuelan Communist party hold every single seat in the unicameral legislative house of Venezuela.. The people have spoken and they have virtually installed the dictatorship of the proletariat in every branch of government. They have already made a few constitutional amendments to better make the government an impliment for socialism.

Again him and his allies ( other parties not nations) have not created the dictatorship of the proletrait nor even a soviet style of government they seem to still be using bourgeoisie parliamentry type of government.

Couple that with ALBA and the PTAs they've been signing (Peoples' trade agreements, mostly between Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia) as opposed to FTAs (free trade), you can see they are moving towards socialism, it just isn't happening like one big orgasm.

Chavez's problem is he has no apeal to an American voter, we need our own marxists here to take over. He can't do everything :p Just like in Russia and the COMintern, they could give advice and money, but little else because of peoples' nationalistic concerns. Chavez telling people what to do here would be as negatively received as it was in Peru.