The Chavez model

Andres Oppenheimer recently wrote in the Miami Herald:

Venezuela not only has the highest inflation rate in Latin America, record crime rates and growing food and electricity shortages, but has also done poorly in poverty reduction when compared with its neighbors... Ironically, Chávez’s self-described “socialist revolution” has resulted in a decline of Venezuela’s public school system and in a boom of private schools.

Does this not sound like where Obama is taking America?