What to do about Chavez?

[Lunar]

I've always been in favor of the CIA giving him a heart attack.  I'm unsure about the line of succession, I'm assuming it's vague and the country would become more democratic. 

[Lunar]

Nothing wrong with an air raid to destroy anything that could possibly attack the oil rigs followed by an occupation of them, quickly followed by a special forces strike to kill Chavez and a right wing coup to replace him.

I think treating Venzuela as an American playground would be a poor foreign policy move.  It'd probably force the Venzuelans to the left politically, perhaps sending the country back to the 2004-05 days of leftist demagoguery (asuming a democracy is left intact).

[Lunar]

I've always been in favor of the CIA giving him a heart attack.  I'm unsure about the line of succession, I'm assuming it's vague and the country would become more democratic. 

While I tend to find that "distasteful", I woundn´t mind if it happen for Chavez

Sure.  Assassinations tend to be ethically questionable and publicly disastrous if discovered.  I think we're in the same boat here regarding the exceptions (done for altruistic reasons, everybody wins except the dead man, etc.).

[Lunar]

Remember, as oppose to Musharaf  in Pakistan, for example, Chavz  came to power in a democratic  election process

Surely we can look at the depth of the situations though.