Some analysts say Chávez used such incidents to "fire up his support base among the majority poor at home with blunt language that played on their misgivings of rich countries' investments in Latin America".
一些分析師說，查維茲利用此類事件「在他的基礎支持者中煽風點火，他們大多數都是窮人，在家裡用生硬的語言訴說他們對富裕國家於拉丁美洲投資的疑慮。