While I can not approve of the recent actions of Hugo Chavez, the actions of his opponents have been far worse, and I think that he has been very generous to them, and if they had the chance to assassinate him, they would go for it.
"Danilo Anderson was a Venezuelan state prosecutor investigating more than 400 people, people whom were participants in the failed 2002 coup d'état attempt. Anderson, 38, was assassinated in Urbanización Los Chaguaramos in Caracas, Venezuela on November 18, 2004, while driving home from the college where he was taking post-graduate classes. He was killed when a C-4 plastic explosive device placed on the frame under the driver's seat on his Toyota SUV was detonated, apparently by remote control. Witnesses say they heard two loud explosions and saw the vehicle, already in flames, crash against the front of a nearby building."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danilo_Anderson