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In his speech on Wednesday, Mr. Chávez, who hinted at the possibility of seeking another term once this one ends in 2012, seemed to evoke Fidel Castro’s leftward ideological evolution in the years after taking power in Cuba in 1959. Mr. Chávez, who has forged a tight economic alliance with Cuba, peppered his speech with references to the works of two Italian Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci and Antonio Negri.

He weaved in quotations from Napoleon and Trotsky, saying Trotsky had the right idea when he said, “The revolution never ends.” He also quoted liberally from the writings of Bol�*var and the Bible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/wo...html?ref=world

In his closing speech at the First Meeting of National and International Intellectuals in Defence of Humanity, December 5 in Caracas, President Hugo Chavez spoke about Trotsky and his Permanent Revolution. He said in particular: “I am in the course of reading a book someone gave me, Permanent Revolution, a formidable book, by Trotsky”.

Venezuelan National Radio gave the following information about this speech: “He also exhorted the need to take up again the study of socialist ideas, of socialism’s original theses, to revise the mistakes, to reorient ourselves in order to take the right direction, so as to avoid the extermination of the human race, of the planet Earth, of all life."

In commenting on this task, he said that in Moscow he had bought Trotsky‘s book The Permanent Revolution,in which the Bolshevik revolutionary explains that the problems of each country don’t have national solutions, but that these problems include other peoples, a thesis that he said he entirely shared. In harmony with this supreme objective, he recalled that this Monday there will take place in this city the Bolivarian Congress of Peoples, which includes for the moment only the Latin American and Caribbean regions, but which should in his opinion be extended to the whole world. ‘This other summit will complete the one we are concluding here’, Chavez underlined”.

NOTE: If Chavez obtained Permanent Revolution in Moscow, it seems more likely that he was given it than that he bought it.

http://www.internationalviewpoint.or...php?article414

Ik was zelf wat aan het zoeken over die nieuwe minister op het internet en ik heb er niets over gevonden, maar wel wat meer onfo over dat Trotsky gedoe.
Het lijkt nu wel logischer dat Chavez gewoon een anti stalinist is met een voorliefde voor socialisme dat zich niet aan grenzen houd.