Huge turnout in recent regional elections in Venezuela demonstrated the vibrancy of Venezuela’s democracy, but results of the elections were decidedly mixed for Hugo Chavez’s newly form United Socialist Party of Venezuela. So what is the current state of Chavez’s administration and the country’s revolutionary experiment? What are the implications of the recent elections? What role do international factors—the replacement of Chavez’s arch-nemesis George Bush with Barack Obama, the rise and fall in international oil prices, and progressive winds in Latin America—play in its trajectory? Tammy Bang-Luu talks with Nikolas Kozloff, author of "Revoltuion: South America and the Rise of the New Left."