It appears Hugo Chavez, the elected leader turned dictator of Venezuela, is angry the world is now finally noticing that he is, well, a dictator who rules what should be a democracy.

He’s angry because the international media is expressing concern over the arrest of Carlos Fernandez, a strike leader who organized the two month oil strike against Chavez. He’s under house arrest after being taken by police, without due cause or process, from a steakhouse.

El Presidente is angry that other nations, like the U.S. and Spain, don’t like him, claiming that Venezuela’s increasingly chaotic affairs are its own, not of concern to anyone else. He’s also angry at his neighbor, Colombia, because it accuses him of meeting with that’s nations leftist guerillas. Who knows? After all, this is a dictator in the making who admires Castro and cultivates chummy ties with that other, recently elected, soon-to-turn Marxist dictator of Brazil: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Here’s one retort to Mr. Chavez: since when did you care for the sovereignty of your country when you subvert the nation’s constitution, seek to shut down the nation’s free press, ignore the popular will you pretend to romance, and unduly consolidate power under your office?

As a curious side note, is there a resemblance here between Chavez railing against the international community and a certain leader who wants Eastern Europe to shut up in obedience to E.U. sovereignty?