What are the major political issues that Venezuela faces today?

The previous post was accurate here.  I think that the
answer reflects another issue that faces Venezuela.  In the globalized setting, where
information, commodities, and wealth travel freely without any sort of ideological
barrier, how does the emergence of the solitary figure in leading government play into
this configuration?  The "superman" leader in government is something that we have seen
in the 1930s, with the rise of European Fascism, in America with FDR, in World War II,
and even in the Cold War.  Yet, in this new era of globalization, how do competitive
nations, which are gravitating to free market principles and, by almost default, more
openness in the democratic setting, reconcile their reality with the nations like
Venezuela who still have a superman in power?  It seems to me that globalization has
reduced everything to a sense of identification through things- ideas, economies,
technology.  People, and particularly the political superman, have to adjust to this.
 Chavez seems to be a throwback in this light, reminiscent of the Castro idea brought
out in the previous post.  How is he going to approach Venezuela's participation in the
globalization process?  I think that this is going to be a major issue as Venezuela goes
forward.  Along these lines, how will Venezuela take this reality and combine it with
its petroleum resources?  It seems to me that with the discomfort with the petroleum
business in the Gulf, and the drying up of well fields all over the world, Venezuela can
have a major say in the petro- energy industry.  This might be another reality that is
directly tied into the first one to form a major political and economic set of issues
that Venezuela might have to resolve.