The mind of Hugo Chavez is like a compost heap. It’s full of layer upon layer of muck, and when he gets to spreading it out through what comes out of his mouth, you never know what will come up to the top.

Greg Wilpert, a Chavista agent who edits a prominent Chavista Web site, wrote an amazing piece about Chavez’s relations with the West and his own view of himself for Political Affairs, the official magazine of the Communist Party USA. He had a long rambling chat with Chavez, who proves he’s congenitally unable to keep his mouth shut. So he blathered and blathered, speaking of his pleasure at the Democrats’ election to Congress, while discussing every liaison he’s had with them. It’s interesting because he said too much – all of the material in it can be used to politically damage U.S. Democrats. He said way too much and Wilpert printed it all. It also shows Chavez’s modus operandi, his capacity for horsetrading and subterfuge and his conspiratorial mindset.

Wilpert’s got information about Chavez’s peculiar relationship with John Kerry, and all the strange encounters Chavez had had with Clinton. Chavez also discusses how he handles these leaders, who often were in the shadow of Bush themselves, showing a willingness to make backdoor deals. To Kerry, for example, he said:

Recalling the 2004 presidential campaign, Chavez told of how the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry, made overtures to contact him, via Citgo, and that Kerry sent warm greetings at the time. This gave him some hope that if Kerry were to win, a relationship of mutual respect with the U.S. could be started. However, a few days after the Citgo meeting, Kerry????????s campaign came out with a strong anti-Chavez statement, which Chavez attributed to an error within the Kerry campaign, to ???????infiltrators??????? and thus decided not to respond publicly to the statement. Instead, he sent a private message to Kerry, saying that he doesn????????t ask Kerry to put on Chavez????????s trademark red beret. Instead, ???????If Kerry has to say that Chavez is a tyrant, fine, but then, once elected, we talk.???????

He also described his own view of his favorite topic, himself, claiming he is a “revolutionary,” and not a populist, which underscores the fact that he’s a tyrant, not a mere pork-barreler as he is often portrayed in the press. He speaks of his brand of communism as no longer ’21st Century Socialism’ but now “indo-American socialism.” I guess the 21st Century Socialism thing didn’t work out. Now he claims he’s just following Indians now.

This is a must-read for a look at the untidy and conspiratoral mind of Chavez here.