That's due in part to lingering French admiration and respect for insurrectional and revolutionary movements, and a national inclination toward stroppiness.
His great-grandfather was a revolutionary who fought the 1920s dictatorship of Juan Vincente Gomez, and Chavez imbibed his family's insurrectional legends before he joined the army.
All that, he says, increases the allure and utility of insurrectional action and pushes the limits of dramatic protest over time.