If it’s a fair election, and it’s what the majority of Venezuelans want, then I have no problem with it. It’s their business.

But, you have to admit, Chavez is not the most stable leader going. Monday may prove to be the beginning of (even more so) bad times at the ol’ gas pump.

Chavez Backers Rally for Charter Changes

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez urged supporters Friday to approve constitutional changes that he said could keep him in power for life and threatened to cut off oil exports to the United States if it tries to meddle in Sunday’s vote.
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“If ‘Yes’ wins on Sunday and the Venezuelan oligarchy, the violent Venezuelans - the ones who play the (U.S.) empire’s game - unleash violence with the tale that there was fraud … minister, that very Monday you order a halt to the shipments of oil to the United States,” Chavez said, addressing his oil minister, Rafael Ramirez.

Venezuela was the fourth largest oil exporter to the United States in 2006.

Halting exports to the U.S., the No. 1 buyer of Venezuelan oil, would cut off a major source of income for the Venezuelan government.