Hugo Chávez - Fascista
So says Carlos Fuentes, in Latin American Leftists Redefine Politics:

[T]he old labels are increasingly misleading in Latin America -- a point made recently by Carlos Fuentes, a famed Mexican novelist, moderate leftist and frequent critic of U.S. policies.

Fuentes wrote that while [Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel] Lopez Obrador has been unfairly "demonized" as a populist demagogue, Chavez is a "tropical Mussolini" trying to pass himself off as a leftist. His recommendation: Latin leftists should follow the Chilean socialist model, a real genre-bender that mixes free-market economics and fiscal restraint with poverty-reduction programs.

I take issue only with Señor Fuente's choice of words. Chávez, and Mussolini and Hitler before him, are and were leftists. It's just that they are and were not Liberals in the classical sense of the word.