You're missing the entire point of my post. What you consider as "works" I consider to be a temporary measure to stem the tide of discontent within the country. What I'm saying, and I'm repeating myself here, is that these changes will inevitably end and will "bring about another plunge into poverty, corruption and violence." In other words, these measures are inevitably doomed to fail because they exist within a capitalist framework.
A very good example of this is Allende, who did much of what Chavez is doing right now. While it's not guaranteed that the movement in Venezuela will end with a coup, what is inevitable is that it will end somehow.
By offering temporary programs and tossing breadcrumbs to the people he is staving off revolution, yes.
No, it is better for a group of class conscious Venezuelans to stand up and convince their brothers and sisters that all they are getting are breadcrumbs, and that eventually they will no longer even get that, unless they take the whole loaf for themselves (wow, lame analogy, but it totally worked).
What is missing is a mass workers movement in Venezuela to fight the opportunists and economists.