Venezuela Tires of Enriched Hugo Chavez Family

"Pressure mounts on entire Chavez clan" from Der Spiegel reports that  Venezuela's electorate is getting tired of the volatile Chavez family that has enriched itself mightily at the public trough.

This is apparently true of the entire family. Since Hugo Chavez, a former paratrooper who later staged a military coup and is now the leader of the Latin American Left, was elected president in 1998, his once-humble mestizo family has become a wealthy clan. The Chavez family is believed to own 17 farms, several of them, as the opposition claims, acquired through straw men. "The Chavezes are the new oligarchs of Barinas," says Antonio Bastidas, a former neighbor and member of the opposition today.