 Tomas Straka weAndres Bello University, anotsanangura kuti kunamatwa kwaChavez kwehunhu kwakatanga zvichitevera kuyedza kweVenzuelan coup détat muna 1992 iyo Chávez akatungamira, naStraka achitsanangura kuti vamwe veVenzuelan havana kuona mhinduro kumatambudziko avo akakosha uye vakaona muna Chávez muponesi, kana mutsivi wemapoka iwayo aive asina tariro. Kubvira pakatanga kutonga kwaChavez muna 1999, hurumende yeVenezuela yakafurira veruzhinji veVenezuela nezvirongwa zvemagariro zvinomuratidza semutungamiri mukuru wevanhu. Kurwisana uko Chávez akatsungirira mukati mokutonga kwake, zvakadai sokuedza kweVenezuela coup détat muna 2002, akawanawo tsitsi kubva kuvateveri vake izvo zvakawedzera rutsigiro rwake. Maererano neimwe nyanzvi yeLatin America yepaUniversity of California Santa Barbara, Juan Pablo Lupi, kuumbwa kwokunamata unhu kwaChávez kwakanga kwakarongwa zvakanaka kwazvo, muitiro wose uyu wokugadzira ngano uye kukwezva mirangariro nokurangarira kworudzidziso kwavanhu. Ichi chinhu chinenge chechitendero. Tsananguro yaLupi yokunamata unhu kwaChavez yakanga yakafanana neyaJuan Carlos Bertorelli, mutungamiriri wokusika wekambani yokutengesa muCaracas naLarry Birns, mutungamiriri weCouncil on Hemispheric Affairs. Carlos Bertorelli akataura kuti hurumende yeBolivarian yakagadzira kunamatwa kwehunhu kwakakomberedza Chávez kuitira kuti chengetedze kuvapo kunovapa mvumo nepo Birns akataura kuti Kune vazhinji vari muchiitiko, Chavez, kana kufamba kwevaChavistas kuenda kunzvimbo yechitendero, inyaya yekutenda pane kuti inyaya yemazano. 