if you look at the TV clips near the start of the documentary about Venezuela, the media there is basically wall-to-wall FOX News type shit**. Literally, that's what all the regular TV is like there, because it's all owned by a small group of wealthy families who don't like Chavez. I actually think the American conservative media picked up anti-Obama memes from the anti-Chavez memes in Venezuela. e.g. they shopped Chavez + the Ayatollah, Chavez + Hitler etc, all the same ones they did for Obama. Basically when Obama came along they appropriated all the anti-Chavez tricks and memes for that.
Also, poor Colombia being next to beligerent Venezuela. Venezuela spends $3 billion a year on defense. That's billions with a 'b'. And they have 115000 active front-line personnel. That's a lot of thousands. Meanwhile poor beleagured Colombia has has to ramp up spending to $12 billion and recruit 445000 frontline troops, just to stave off the threat of being invaded by Venezeula.
Venezuela is often accused of militarily threatening it's neighbours (Colombia and Brazil). It does it in the sneakiest way possible: by spending less on arms and maintaining a much smaller army than they do, while signing so called "defense alliances"*! What could be more sneaky and unexpected that that?
* seriously, the media tried to claim Venezeula was strong-arming Brazil when they signed a defense pact. Despite the Brazilian army being absolutely monstrous in comparison to Venezuela's. This is the sort of bullshit you get, when you build up a media narrative that a quite small and not-really-that-militarized nation is in fact the biggest threat to the hemisphere.
** btw: when it comes to covering Latin America, the "liberal" press in USA is as bad as FOX covering domestic politics. e.g. at the nytimes it seems verboten to mention UNASUR (you get 1 Unasur per 100 Kardashians or so), which is like the EU+NATO but for South America. It's a pretty important development in Latin politics, but one the corporate press in the USA has decided you're better off not knowing about - probably because a rival Western Hemisphere bloc doesn't fit the USA's objectives. It's not just "Anti-Chavez" the US media is literally "Anti anything good that happens in Latin America" unless it's about cute sloths or something.