re: "few perceptible differences from those of Hugo Chavez"
People are standing in lines at grocery stores in a country rich with 90 dollar oil. This is because of a leadership that believes the laws of economics mean nothing, and that you can have prosperity by penalizing the productive, heavily regulating the private sector and nationalizing some of it, controls on wages and prices, and redistributing wealth on a huge scale.
If none of that sounds at all familiar, sorry.