Opens “People’s Socialist Stores” which will cut out greedy, grasping capitalists. Chavez is, of course, an illiterate moron and so can be be excused his ignorance. But this is exactly the type of activity that makes him so wildly popular in Hollywood, where film stars turn over their mansions to the homeless and their pay checks to the needy. No word on when Sean Penn will attend a ribbon cutting ceremony for one of these stores but history suggests that he do so soon.