It is to shame Mr Chávez by drawing a clear, public line in favour of democracy the system that allowed a poor lathe-operator to come to power and change Brazil.
He says his past as a poor, hungry, unemployed lathe operator gives him special insight.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil's left-wing Workers Partyy, a former lathe operator and union leader who was born to a poor peasant family, was elected president in a landslide, winning 61percentt of the vote.
FOUR years ago, the election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a former lathe-operator and trade-union leader, as president of the world's fourth-biggest democracy aroused the fears of some investors and the hopes of many poor Brazilians.
It spins up beautifully in a lathe.
Lula, the lathe operator, now looked presidential.
4. Remove necktie before operating lathe.
RESTORING A 1940 South Bend nine-inch lathe.
18. Embarcadero freeway 1981: Lathe Tool Works, 37 Clementina Street.
I would be learning to use a lathe.
