Driving Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is his animosity directed at the U.S. He loathes the U.S. not only because it’s what he really feels (he is said to stiffen in the presence of U.S. citizens) but almost as importantly, because it is politically useful.

In Chavez’s logic, if all the blame about the poverty and oppression in the world can be focused on just the detested U.S., the rest of the world will unite behind Chavista ideas and he can then build an alliance to eventually challenge the hated “hegemon.”

It’s not working the way he planned though.

There are growing signs of revulsion in the developing world about Chavez. Some of the leading skeptics are found in the world’s most revolutionary countries, the people who are spearheading the world’s leading democratic revolutions — people from the Arab and Hellenic world, for one. People who have rejected tyranny and the negative strain of nationalism which ended in a slew of preening mirrored-sunglass strongman rulers for years and years. The people who have lived through this are the ones we are hearing from about Chavez.

Bloggers in far-reaching places like Ethiopia and Egypt are not impressed with Chavez’s retrograde program that looks like something from the 1950s. Others pity Venezuela. Many of these Chavez observers from abroad are in post-colonial countries that won their independence in that 1950s era. They’ve been there and done that.

Here is a roundup of how people in non-U.S. parts of the world are reacting to Chavez:

From Egypt, Rantings of a Sandmonkey warns that Chavez is little different from Egyptian dictator Nasser who left Egypt in decades of ruin. He cites Chavez’s nationalism and his spending programs. He also warns Chavez that the people he thinks are his allies are not his allies and principally like his largesse but will go elsewhere if a better deal is offered. In other words, he considers Chavez a sucker. “It’s like watching a bad movie all over again,” he writes.

From Argentina, Argepundit writes, in Spanish, that as the world has abandoned Venezuela’s internal opposition, Chavez has grown emboldened with his seizures of private property and destruction of human rights, and rules in a “profoundly undemocratic” way. People like Jimmy Carter who ratified the fraudulent recall referendum on Chavez last year are among the most grievous offenders contributing to the complacency and the conflagration. He deeply pities Venezuela.

From Ethiopia, EthioPundit writes that he, too, is stunned by the retrograde, behind-the-times, wave-of-the-past, views of Hugo Chavez. He cites Ethiopia’s 17 years of communism and 14 years of something about as bad, and notes that it left Ethiopia a bitter economic shell, one of the world’s poorest nations. He worries that Chavez will use his vast oil billions to prop up Ethiopia’s entrenched oppressors.

From Spain, Ajopringue writes, in Spanish, that the recent confiscations, of the Heinz factory by Venezuelan military troops, resembles the worst excess of the Cuban Castro regime, or for that matter, the Ethiopian regime. He denounces the destruction of private property rights. He also has an announcement from VCrisis notifying readers of coming anti-fascist, anti-communist protests in New York against Chavez.