Raul Baduel [Ex Defence Minister under Chavez until July 2007] said that “Reforms equal dictatorship and Venezuela will have a consolidated dictatorship like the USA and Cuba”. He must know since he helped Chavez regain power in 2002 and helped the Old Left and Old Right called Republicans, Democrats, Communists, Racists, Nazis in the process.

Reference:

http://espanol.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/071106/latinoamerica/ams_gen_venezuela_constitucion