But he has also cultivated support among the party elite.

During socialism, the University served as a training center for the party elite.

The old party elite in the Government are using the nationalists for now, he said, to try to keep power and property.

The school has nothing in common with the old finishing schools for daughters of the party elite.

In any coup, their orders were to save the party elite.

The party elite met them in their uniform: dark business suits.

Only for party elite, the design changed little over their thirty-year production run.

Later, that Party elite came to be known as the nomenklatura.

And the party elite is shifting to the new private sector to shelter resources.

But in Venezuela, party elites have agreed to bury the idea.