No, X: he uses the poor because in most of those countries there's open class warfare / hate. He took over in a coup d'etat, he's threatened American lives & property, he aims to confiscate all foreign holdings & declare all debts void:
Money does not grow on trees-- in one fell swoop he will plunder & severely cripple international companies, banks & economies, export that revolution to his neighbors, then after the bloodbaths we get to send in more money to rebuild the infrastructures. That's the next Castro-Saddam if you leave him alone--
There is nothing sinister going on from our end: we are not the Stalins & Hitlers of the world-- we only attempt to nip the budding ones before they cause major catastrophes.