To me as an outside observer President Hugo Chavez is probably the last non corporate military industrial complex President in the world. Why the heat around him and his persona is at these levels. This President has made poor people a real issue, this is something the rest of the world and west in particular does not care a bloody thing about. The haves and the haves not is not an issue in these mega corporate body's that runs the world today. The leaders today is only concentrating on the already haves, and that is the middle class and the upper class. The haves nothing they completely ignores, they do not take them seriously at all, unless its election year when they need their votes and then puts in subsides to please the general public. This is the corporate controlled world today where the poor stays poor and the rich stays rich as it turns out it is just like the song by Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows. Let me share parts of its text it is up to date with today's world and it really explains how it is playing out in the real world. Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long stem rose Everybody knows