Chavez was less political correct, right? I mean he was very upfront. He just called G.W. Bush a donkey.
In case of Ecuador we can see how they played the chess pieces a bit different. They played Lenin Moreno as a soft Coup pawn. Always on the side of Rafael Correa, and when Moreno came to power he turned 180 degrees at the whim of his masters.

Unfortunately socialism-capitalism works just like democratic-capitalism and communism-capitalism. Capitalism works. But we are now dealing with corrupt-capitalism, an inevitable end result of the unfair balance of the game

the distrubution of wealth is just extreme out of balance