Liquor Banned in Venezuela Until After Easter

Tell me why, again, leftists around the world like Hugo Chavez, when, after gaining the power to rule by decree, he enacted a curfew based dry law. The Venezuelan government claims it's to prevent drunk driving deaths during the holiday, and I'm not quite sure why dry laws are enacted during elections, but we know that Hugo does not like whiskey: "Chavez has attacked the whiskey habit as an affectation of his arch-enemy the United States." When you have a totalitarian regime, the Big Brother laws come down at the whim of the dictator, whether its based on some interpretation of Sharia law, or some paranoid fascination with America.