Cracks in Chavismo

During the past few months many cracks have been showing in Chavismo, and each day those cracks only seem to get bigger. For the most part the internal conflicts are not publicly addressed by "El Supremo" aka Chavez, but recently Chavez has made two public statements about his displeasure with things. The most public internal conflict was the spat between Bernal and Barreto, this spat was one of the incidences that required Chavez to publicly scold them. Around the same time the governor of Cojedes was being investigated for corruption, this caused other governors to release a statement in support and against the Chavez, this is funny because the governors were appointed by Chavez and are his "supporters". Luis Tascon with his famous Tascon list, used to blacklist non-Chavez supporters, has been kicked out of the MVR party, I guess Tascon has become a liability now. The most recent events this past week have been that one of Chavez's party PPT has been publicly attacking the governor of Bolivar state another Chavez appointee but of the MVR party. This has resulted in the national Assembly member William Lara (MVR) to ask the PPT respect the governor. On Saturday a public announcement was made by 500 Tupamaros (militants of the Chavez party who have been accused of inciting and conducting violence against the opposition) that they are separating themselves from the Tupamaro group because of ideological differences and because of internal fighting and that they politically infiltrated.
Today in San Cristobal the state of Tachira members of the Bolivarian circles were protesting and asking that the all of the regional committee members be expelled from the party, for their failure to bring unity to the party. By the way Tascon was the deputy for Tachira. About a month ago the internal elections of the MVR party also caused protests because they lacked transparency and the "winners" were appointed before hand. Of course Chavez today said this is all because the CIA along with the old political party AD had infiltrated his political parties. As long as the US keeps it's mouth shut and the venezuelan opposition keeps quiet the cracks will get bigger. Without an enemy (a vocal one) Chavez can not last long, combined with the corruption now being exposed especially within PDVSA.

Some random news:

It is confirmed - The Chavez government did in fact send around an email to EDELCA employees asking them to join his Revolutionary Reserve army - they had 24 hours to respond. As far as I know, no one joined.

The opposition is calling for a nationwide Cacerolazo Thursday at 8pm

The military and CONATEl raided and confiscated equipment of the 94.9 FM radio station (Chavez supporters) http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=13768

Argentine president left Brazil early because he was upset with Chavez's comments

Rumor is that the military (FAN) is not very happy with the state of the country, the question is can and will they do anything? I think at this point it is up to the people not the military.