How about this one?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/16/AR2007051602547_pf.html

...But both Baric and Naguanagua are eagerly participating in one of Chávez's most far-reaching experiments -- community councils that, with money, government consent and popular support, could redraw the way government works in this country. Thousands of councils have been founded nationwide, and they have made decisions on almost everything from trash collection to school construction.

Though no one -- not even Chávez -- has said with certainty just how far community councils will go, many inside and outside government say the idea is to steer Venezuela away from municipal councils and mayors and hand funding and decision-making directly to the people. "If this works, community councils could bury city hall, but something better will be born," said Naguanagua, a teacher who, like Baric, belongs to the council of La Hacienda Maria, in Caracas, Venezuela's capital.

The councils have been buoyed by success stories in some neighborhoods and tarnished by cases of corruption and incompetence in others. But overall, the process of grass-roots decision-making is providing a street-level view into how one of Latin America's more intriguing leaders is trying to bring what he calls "a revolution" to his country.....

i will just add, this is from the same article...

"For Venezuelans in poor barrios -- who felt excluded under the corrupt power-sharing system that ended with Chávez's election in 1998 -- the community councils are a means of empowerment. A December survey released by Latinobarometro, a Chilean polling firm, found that in all of Latin America, only Uruguayans had a more favorable view of their democratic institutions than Venezuelans."

Chavez is willing to begin by emulating Robert Mugabe. Eventually, he is aiming for Pol Pot's style of socialist reform. The people have demanded it.

Also on Saturday, the streets of Caracas were full of protesters who oppose the closing of VZ's only independent TV station. Chavez has accused RCTV of conspiring against the government (namely Hugo himself). Chavez has made it clear that it is HIS decision alone, he has made his decision, and the protesters are wasting their time. Danny Glover, please explain to me how a president can have that kind of power in a democracy.

"community councils"

AKA "soviets"

Let's be fair, is Chavez giving the land to people with actual farming experience, or like Mugabe, to political/military cronies?