Politics in Venezuela

The referendum on the sale of Citgo, apparently did not receive enough votes in the National Assembly from either the opposition or the Chavez supporters. The lack of votes from the pro-Chavez assemblyman is obvious, but could someone explain to me why many in opposition did not vote in favor of this? Again I think this is a great disgrace what they are doing to the Venezuela, again proving why Venezuela deserves in some respect Chavez and why Venezuela will continue to have Chavez. It is not because Chavez is popular (among the majority) or that he is capable to doing good, but it is due in large part with the incompetence of the opposition political parities. While the some of us, Venezuelan citizens and NGO's work hard to expose the truth about Chavez, the truth about the suffering that is taking place by most Venezuelans, and work for a better Venezuela. We have many politicians that are so worried about how to keep their jobs, get more money, more power, and figuring out how to screw everyone around them whether it be other opposition politicians or Chavez himself.
The true incompetence of the opposition is shown when new opposition political parties are created, like the recently announced Polo Democratico (PD). Can someone please explain how this will magically solve our problems? Do we not have enough political parties? Note to the Venezuelan politicians "We don't need more parties, what we need is more unity and fewer parties!" Again these people are so caught up in there own self-righteousness and arrogance that they can't see past there own well being. All the while the Venezuelan people (in particular the poor) are struggling to survive. For anyone to think that Chavez is any different from the previous governments, well you are you wrong it is the same but worse! However, the Venezuelan citizens (as a whole) also share a lot of the blame as well. We want everything but not want to work for it, we complain but don't want to do anything to fix it. While I would admit that the opposition has made strides in political awareness it has failed so much in getting the citizens involved in the political process. In my recent trip to Venezuela (after 4 years being gone) most people I spoke to said "but we went to all the marches". I wanted to say "so what! what have you done to get involved in the political process?" of course the reply would be nothing. Then you have the other people who say "but politics is so dirty", well yes it is but stop complaining and do something about it. As a society Venezuela has a lot to learn about democracy and political process, so this blogger will do what he can to bring about a change. I just hope that the politicians will work with society instead of fighting against us to bring about this change.