Originally Posted by muddy

Hugo is shutting down radio stations (who express opinions against him) and he is currently starting the process of consolidating all chavista political parties into a single unified party ... this is the first step of makjing Venezuela a single party state (with Hugo, of course, in full control of everything). Assuming the opposition's spirit and back isn't broken up till now, this could mean politcal unrest (marches, possibly violence, typical police state paranoid searching and privacy invasion, etc) in the near future.