Dear FRONTLINE,

As a person color I relish Mr. Chavez ability to own his power in the world and share the wealth of his country with the disenfranchised of our country. I believe he has sensibility to the poor that our current administration does not.

Sabrina Nelson
florence, sc

Dear FRONTLINE,

This man's final intentions are unclear to me.I am positive they are also unclear to everyone else. But I am sure of one thing. The people of Venezuela deserve more than this. ANY country with or without their wealthy resources deserves more. Obviously, they should be prospering! But the way Hugo Chaves is superpositioning things is not very constructive.I can't deny that he attempts to be -or at least appear- "constructive."From what I can see (and I am sure it is equally as apparant to the rest of the globe) he is ultimately screwing things up. Purposefully or not and in such an irrational manner it is going to take a political geinus to untangle all of the knots he is tying and all of the law bending he is doing. It appears that Venezuela is not having any fortune in the area of policial geinuses.He rants about the people. About new beginnings and revoloutions. This is all good and well. However there has to be a "big picture." A vision to how it will all end. How people will live after his revoloution.

... Someday I will move to this beautiful country to be one of them. A Venezuelan by my own choice. Please try and do justice to them and to me someday. By either getting your government organized or get out and allow the people to have someone with an ending in mind to write their story. Not a person who is trying to start things off then leaving everyone hanging.

Holly Timmons
Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

Dear FRONTLINE,

I am glad to have the opportunity to see FRONTLINE interest in documenting the political history in Venezuela over the past ten years. I like that you were able to present a range topics, key moments such as April 11th 2002, which is without a doubt the milestone during the current Venezuelan history.

One thing I notice the story is, for most part, told by non Chavez supporters like Mr Petkoff who is well known for initiating the privatization ideology during President Cadera bringing the country the highest inflation in Venezeulan history and freezing wages for over two years while inflation reached 100%.

The issues Venezuela faces today are not essentially new. They have always been there and now they are part of the political discourse as well as part of people's awareness. Nonetheless, with such a polarized situation in the population these issues remain unsolved,for different parties work separately and/or blame each other rather than helping each other for the common well being.

In any case, as Venezuelan I appreciate your work to open the discussion what is not working in the current administration, so that we can find ways to improve it. Let's pay close attention to the coming election's on Sunday Nov 23rd.

Moises Cano
San Francisco, California

Dear FRONTLINE,

He's not doing no more than the Bush administration has been doing for the past eight years. The only difference is one dictator wears an army uniform and the other a business suit.

James Toliver
Shreveport, Louisiana

Dear FRONTLINE,

Hope I'm accepted as a Canadian who has long been interested in Hugo Chavez. It is good to see a leader who is for his people first and has not caved into just becoming another 'stooge' for US interests.

Frances Greenfield
Gananoque,, Onatrio, Canada