Venezuela’s revolution is complex because it has two sides claiming to hold the revolutionary mantle. The reality is, only one does, the one that does the democratic housework, not the one that spends the night painting the town – with red graffiti.

What do the real revolutionaries do? They build the case for democratic revolution. They hold the powerful accountable. They show where the problems are, and precisely. They don’t focus on personality (like the Chavistas do, and come to think of it, Pat Robertson, too). They focus on acts, deeds, facts. Tangible things. They act as voices in the wildnerness of media hype and hoopla. They show the world what is going on.

Which is exactly what Venezuelan bloggers Miguel, Daniel and Veneconomy have done this week.

Miguel exposes Venezuela’s central bank shenanigans with government money, complete with diagrams, showing how the Chavistas are chiselling and stealing from the government left and right for their own aggrandisement. He shows how the money is being concealed and disappeared. Just like all other decadent corrupt dictatorships do.

Daniel and Miguel together expose more trouble together this week in Venezuela’s public hospitals, all of which are starved for funding in the name of Chavez’s castroite ‘revolution.’ Chavez is taking money that used to go to Venezuela’s many public hospitals and handing it to these new showcase ‘misiones’ full of Cuban doctors adept at putting bandaids on, and more to the point, monitoring the barrios for dissent. Meanwhile, patients are dying in the real hospitals, poor people who need major medical care and cannot afford private hospitals. Four died of oxygen starvation in Caracas hospitals this week and they have a thoughtful and informative item on what’s happening structurally that such a thing could be possible.

Meanwhile, Veneconomy exposes the scandal of collapsing and absent housing in Chavez’s revolution. Venezuela is a country of vast natural resources like wood and cement (never mind oil and gas) and a booming youthful population full of laborers and buyers. But substandard housing has skyrocketed upward and virtually no housing has been built under the Chavez regime. So much for humanitarian instincts – his idea of humanitarian is Castro’s dilapidated housing stock in Cuba. Which is what Venezuela is hurdling to.

This kind of corruption needs to be exposed. Documented. Told to everyone. There is no other way to make people who might otherwise think the Chavistas have a point understand what is going on now. Nor in Venezuela is there any other way to make revolution. So much for the facade of revolution that Chavez claims, the Chavistas are nothing more than pocket-lining Somozas, Castros, Papa Docs, Trujillos, Echeverrias, Velascos, Perons, Videlas, Galtieris, Stoessners, Batistas and Noriegas, all playing to the populist peanut gallery.

These Venezuelan Tom Paines are the real revolutionaries who blog the democratic revolution!