His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez rejected comments by dissenters who have compared his government to the "dictatorship" of Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, who last Friday stepped down and turned over the government to the Army after a strong popular rebellion. "I laugh when some 'clever' analysts from the Venezuelan opposition compare my government with that of ex president Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. They are crazy! You see? They are wrong. They are foolish!" Chavez said during his weekly radio and television show "Hello, President!", AFP reported.
"(In Egypt) there was a real dictatorship, and more than half of the population is living in poverty, in extreme poverty, that is the fundamental cause," Chavez said.
Critics have accused the Venezuelan president of promoting a "Communist dictatorship" and seeking to "perpetuate in power." In Venezuela's next presidential election, to be held in 2012, Hugo Chavez will seek a third six-year term in office.
Chavez dismissed the role played by social networks in Hosni Mubarak's overthrow.
"Some of them (Chavez's critics) want to call it the Twitter revolution. No! If there are no real conditions, no revolution can be planned via mobile phone or Twitter. There must be adequate conditions. Revolutions are born by an accumulation of conditions," the Venezuelan president said.