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Hugo Boss: What I learned about Hugo Chávez's mental health when I visited Venezuela with Sean Penn.
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| Last Edited | 411 Name Removed Aug 03, 2010 10:26am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| News Date | Monday, August 2, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Recent accounts of Hugo Chávez's politicized necrophilia may seem almost too lurid to believe, but I can testify from personal experience that they may well be an understatement. In the early hours of July 16—just at the midnight hour, to be precise—Venezuela's capo officiated at a grisly ceremony. This involved the exhumation of the mortal remains of Simón Bolívar, leader of Latin America's rebellion against Spain, who died in 1830. According to a vividly written article by Thor Halvorssen in the July 25 Washington Post, the skeleton was picked apart—even as Chávez tweeted the proceedings for his audience—and some teeth and bone fragments were taken away for testing. The residual pieces were placed in a coffin stamped with the Chávez government's seal. In one of the rather free-associating speeches for which he has become celebrated, Chávez appealed to Jesus Christ to restage the raising of Lazarus and reanimate Bolívar's constituent parts. |
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